Edexcel S1 — Question 4

Exam BoardEdexcel
ModuleS1 (Statistics 1)
TopicNormal Distribution
TypeEstimate from percentile/frequency data

4. A botanist believes that the lengths of the branches on trees of a certain species can be modelled by a normal distribution.
When he measures the lengths of 500 branches, he finds 55 which are less than 30 cm long and 200 which are more than 90 cm long.
  1. Find the mean and the standard deviation of the lengths.
  2. In a sample of 1000 branches, how many would he expect to find with lengths greater than 1 metre? \section*{STATISTICS 1 (A) TEST PAPER 7 Page 2}