Edexcel S1 — Question 3

Exam BoardEdexcel
ModuleS1 (Statistics 1)
TopicNormal Distribution
TypeMixed calculations with boundaries

3. The time it takes girls aged 15 to complete an obstacle course is found to be normally distributed with a mean of 21.5 minutes and a standard deviation of 2.2 minutes.
  1. Find the probability that a randomly chosen 15 year-old girl completes the course in less than 25 minutes. A 13 year-old girl completes the course in exactly 19 minutes.
  2. What percentage of 15 year-old girls would she beat over the course? Anyone completing the course in less than 20 minutes is presented with a certificate of achievement. Three friends all complete the course one afternoon.
  3. What is the probability that exactly two of them get certificates?