OCR MEI Further Statistics Major 2024 June — Question 3

Exam BoardOCR MEI
ModuleFurther Statistics Major (Further Statistics Major)
Year2024
SessionJune
TopicLinear combinations of normal random variables
TypeMultiple stage process probability

3 At a launderette the process of cleaning a load of clothes consists of three stages: washing, drying and folding. The times in minutes for each process are modelled by independent Normal distributions with means and standard deviations as shown in the table.
\cline { 2 - 3 } \multicolumn{1}{c|}{}MeanStandard deviation
Washing352.4
Drying463.1
Folding122.2
  1. Find the probability that drying a randomly chosen load of clothes takes more than 50 minutes.
  2. It is given that for \(99 \%\) of loads of clothes the washing time is less than \(k\) minutes. Find the value of \(k\).
  3. Determine the probability that the drying time for a randomly chosen load of clothes is less than the total of the washing and folding times.
  4. Determine the probability that the mean time for cleaning 5 randomly chosen loads of clothes is less than 90 minutes. You should assume that the time for cleaning any load is independent of the time for cleaning any other load.