AQA S1 2007 January — Question 6

Exam BoardAQA
ModuleS1 (Statistics 1)
Year2007
SessionJanuary
TopicNormal Distribution
TypeIndependent probability calculations

6 When Monica walks to work from home, she uses either route A or route B.
  1. Her journey time, \(X\) minutes, by route A may be assumed to be normally distributed with a mean of 37 and a standard deviation of 8 . Determine:
    1. \(\mathrm { P } ( X < 45 )\);
    2. \(\mathrm { P } ( 30 < X < 45 )\).
  2. Her journey time, \(Y\) minutes, by route B may be assumed to be normally distributed with a mean of 40 and a standard deviation of \(\sigma\). Given that \(\mathrm { P } ( Y > 45 ) = 0.12\), calculate the value of \(\sigma\).
  3. If Monica leaves home at 8.15 am to walk to work hoping to arrive by 9.00 am , state, with a reason, which route she should take.
  4. When Monica travels to work from home by car, her journey time, \(W\) minutes, has a mean of 18 and a standard deviation of 12 . Estimate the probability that, for a random sample of 36 journeys to work from home by car, Monica's mean time is more than 20 minutes.
  5. Indicate where, if anywhere, in this question you needed to make use of the Central Limit Theorem.