AQA S1 2012 January — Question 4

Exam BoardAQA
ModuleS1 (Statistics 1)
Year2012
SessionJanuary
TopicBinomial Distribution
TypeProbability of range of values

4 The records at a passport office show that, on average, 15 per cent of photographs that accompany applications for passport renewals are unusable. Assume that exactly one photograph accompanies each application.
  1. Determine the probability that in a random sample of 40 applications:
    1. exactly 6 photographs are unusable;
    2. at most 5 photographs are unusable;
    3. more than 5 but fewer than 10 photographs are unusable.
  2. Calculate the mean and the standard deviation for the number of photographs that are unusable in a random sample of \(\mathbf { 3 2 }\) applications.
  3. Mr Stickler processes 32 applications each day. His records for the previous 10 days show that the numbers of photographs that he deemed unusable were $$\begin{array} { l l l l l l l l l l } 8 & 6 & 10 & 7 & 9 & 7 & 8 & 9 & 6 & 7 \end{array}$$ By calculating the mean and the standard deviation of these values, comment, with reasons, on the suitability of the \(\mathrm { B } ( 32,0.15 )\) model for the number of photographs deemed unusable each day by Mr Stickler.