Edexcel S2 2001 June — Question 4

Exam BoardEdexcel
ModuleS2 (Statistics 2)
Year2001
SessionJune
TopicApproximating Binomial to Normal Distribution
TypeCombined binomial and normal events

4. A company always sends letters by second class post unless they are marked first class. Over a long period of time it has been established that \(20 \%\) of letters to be posted are marked first class. In a random selection of 10 letters to be posted, find the probability that the number marked first class is
  1. at least 3,
  2. fewer than 2 . One Monday morning there are only 12 first class stamps. Given that there are 70 letters to be posted that day,
  3. use a suitable approximation to find the probability that there are enough first class stamps.
  4. State an assumption about these 70 letters that is required in order to make the calculation in part (c) valid.