AQA S1 2009 June — Question 7

Exam BoardAQA
ModuleS1 (Statistics 1)
Year2009
SessionJune
TopicBinomial Distribution
TypeProbability of range of values

7 Mr Alott and Miss Fewer work in a postal sorting office.
  1. The number of letters per batch, \(R\), sorted incorrectly by Mr Alott when sorting batches of 50 letters may be modelled by the distribution \(\mathrm { B } ( 50,0.15 )\). Determine:
    1. \(\mathrm { P } ( R < 10 )\);
    2. \(\mathrm { P } ( 5 \leqslant R \leqslant 10 )\).
  2. It is assumed that the probability that Miss Fewer sorts a letter incorrectly is 0.06 , and that her sorting of a letter incorrectly is independent from letter to letter.
    1. Calculate the probability that, when sorting a batch of \(\mathbf { 2 2 }\) letters, Miss Fewer sorts exactly 2 letters incorrectly.
    2. Calculate the probability that, when sorting a batch of \(\mathbf { 3 5 }\) letters, Miss Fewer sorts at least 1 letter incorrectly.
    3. Calculate the mean and the variance for the number of letters sorted correctly by Miss Fewer when she sorts a batch of \(\mathbf { 1 2 0 }\) letters.
    4. Miss Fewer sorts a random sample of 20 batches, each containing 120 letters. The number of letters sorted correctly per batch has a mean of 112.8 and a variance of 56.86 . Comment on the assumptions that the probability that Miss Fewer sorts a letter incorrectly is 0.06 , and that her sorting of a letter incorrectly is independent from letter to letter.
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