AQA S1 2011 June — Question 6

Exam BoardAQA
ModuleS1 (Statistics 1)
Year2011
SessionJune
TopicBinomial Distribution
TypeProbability of range of values

6 An amateur tennis club purchases tennis balls that have been used previously in professional tournaments. The probability that each such ball fails a standard bounce test is 0.15 . The club purchases boxes each containing 10 of these tennis balls. Assume that the 10 balls in any box represent a random sample.
  1. Determine the probability that the number of balls in a box which fail the bounce test is:
    1. at most 2 ;
    2. at least 2;
    3. more than 1 but fewer than 5 .
  2. Determine the probability that, in \(\mathbf { 5 }\) boxes, the total number of balls which fail the bounce test is:
    1. more than 5 ;
    2. at least 5 but at most 10 .