Edexcel S1 — Question 7

Exam BoardEdexcel
ModuleS1 (Statistics 1)
TopicNormal Distribution
TypeDirect expected frequency calculation

7. The volume of liquid in bottles of sparkling water from one producer is believed to be normally distributed with a mean of 704 ml and a variance of \(3.2 \mathrm { ml } ^ { 2 }\). Calculate the probability that a randomly chosen bottle from this producer contains
  1. more than 706 ml ,
  2. between 703 and 708 ml . The bottles are labelled as containing 700 ml .
  3. In a delivery of 1200 bottles, how many could be expected to contain less than the stated 700 ml ? The bottling process can be adjusted so that the mean changes but the variance is unchanged.
  4. What should the mean be changed to in order to have only a \(0.1 \%\) chance of a bottle having less than 700 ml of sparkling water? Give your answer correct to 1 decimal place.