AQA S1 2008 June — Question 6

Exam BoardAQA
ModuleS1 (Statistics 1)
Year2008
SessionJune
TopicBinomial Distribution
TypeProbability of range of values

6 For the adult population of the UK, 35 per cent of men and 29 per cent of women do not wear glasses or contact lenses.
  1. Determine the probability that, in a random sample of 40 men:
    1. at most 15 do not wear glasses or contact lenses;
    2. more than 10 but fewer than 20 do not wear glasses or contact lenses.
  2. Calculate the probability that, in a random sample of 10 women, exactly 3 do not wear glasses or contact lenses.
    1. Calculate the mean and the variance for the number who do wear glasses or contact lenses in a random sample of 20 women.
    2. The numbers wearing glasses or contact lenses in 10 groups, each of 20 women, had a mean of 16.5 and a variance of 2.50. Comment on the claim that these 10 groups were not random samples.