Edexcel S1 — Question 4

Exam BoardEdexcel
ModuleS1 (Statistics 1)
TopicNormal Distribution
TypeSingle tail probability P(X < a) or P(X > a)

4. A company produces jars of English Honey. The weight of the glass jars used is normally distributed with a mean of 122.3 g and a standard deviation of 2.6 g . Calculate the probability that a randomly chosen jar will weigh
  1. less than 127 g ,
  2. less than 121.5 g . The weight of honey put into each jar by a machine is normally distributed with a standard deviation of 1.6 g . The machine operator can adjust the mean weight of the honey put into each jar without changing the standard deviation.
  3. Find, correct to 4 significant figures, the minimum that the mean weight can be set to such that at most 1 in 20 of the jars will contain less than 454 g .
    (4 marks)