Edexcel S2 2006 January — Question 6

Exam BoardEdexcel
ModuleS2 (Statistics 2)
Year2006
SessionJanuary
TopicCentral limit theorem
TypeDeriving sampling distribution

6. A bag contains a large number of coins. Half of them are 1 p coins, one third are 2 p coins and the remainder are 5p coins.
  1. Find the mean and variance of the value of the coins. A random sample of 2 coins is chosen from the bag.
  2. List all the possible samples that can be drawn.
  3. Find the sampling distribution of the mean value of these samples.