AQA S1 2009 January — Question 3

Exam BoardAQA
ModuleS1 (Statistics 1)
Year2009
SessionJanuary
TopicNormal Distribution
TypeMultiple probability calculations

3 UPVC facia board is supplied in lengths labelled as 5 metres. The actual length, \(X\) metres, of a board may be modelled by a normal distribution with a mean of 5.08 and a standard deviation of 0.05 .
  1. Determine:
    1. \(\mathrm { P } ( X < 5 )\);
    2. \(\mathrm { P } ( 5 < X < 5.10 )\).
  2. Determine the probability that the mean length of a random sample of 4 boards:
    1. exceeds 5.05 metres;
    2. is exactly 5 metres.
  3. Assuming that the value of the standard deviation remains unchanged, determine the mean length necessary to ensure that only 1 per cent of boards have lengths less than 5 metres.