Edexcel S2 2017 June — Question 5

Exam BoardEdexcel
ModuleS2 (Statistics 2)
Year2017
SessionJune
TopicNormal Distribution
TypeFind p then binomial probability

5. The time taken for a randomly selected person to complete a test is \(M\) minutes, where \(M \sim \mathrm {~N} \left( 14 , \sigma ^ { 2 } \right)\) Given that \(10 \%\) of people take less than 12 minutes to complete the test,
  1. find the value of \(\sigma\) Graham selects 15 people at random.
  2. Find the probability that fewer than 2 of these people will take less than 12 minutes to complete the test. Jovanna takes a random sample of \(n\) people. Using a normal approximation, the probability that fewer than 9 of these \(n\) people will take less than 12 minutes to complete the test is 0.3085 to 4 decimal places.
  3. Find the value of \(n\).