Edexcel S2 2005 January — Question 5

Exam BoardEdexcel
ModuleS2 (Statistics 2)
Year2005
SessionJanuary
TopicApproximating Binomial to Normal Distribution
TypePoisson approximation to binomial

5. From company records, a manager knows that the probability that a defective article is produced by a particular production line is 0.032 . A random sample of 10 articles is selected from the production line.
  1. Find the probability that exactly 2 of them are defective. On another occasion, a random sample of 100 articles is taken.
  2. Using a suitable approximation, find the probability that fewer than 4 of them are defective. At a later date, a random sample of 1000 is taken.
  3. Using a suitable approximation, find the probability that more than 42 are defective.
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