5.
Patrick is practising his skateboarding skills. On each day, he has 30 attempts at performing a difficult trick.
Every time he attempts the trick, there is a probability of 0.2 that he will fall off his skateboard.
Assume that the number of times he falls off on any given day may be modelled by a binomial distribution.
- Find the mean number of times he falls off in a day.
- (ii) Find the variance of the number of times he falls off in a day.
- Find the probability that, on a particular day, he falls off exactly 10 times.
- (ii) Find the probability that, on a particular day, he falls off 5 or more times.
- Patrick has 30 attempts to perform the trick on each of 5 consecutive days.
- Calculate the probability that he will fall off his skateboard at least 5 times on each of the 5 days.
- (ii) Explain why it may be unrealistic to use the same value of 0.2 for the probability of falling off for all 5 days.