CAIE S1 2023 June — Question 6

Exam BoardCAIE
ModuleS1 (Statistics 1)
Year2023
SessionJune
TopicBinomial Distribution
TypeProbability distribution table

6 Eli has four fair 4 -sided dice with sides labelled \(1,2,3,4\). He throws all four dice at the same time. The random variable \(X\) denotes the number of 2s obtained.
  1. Show that \(\mathrm { P } ( X = 3 ) = \frac { 3 } { 64 }\).
  2. Complete the following probability distribution table for \(X\).
    \(x\)01234
    \(\mathrm { P } ( X = x )\)\(\frac { 81 } { 256 }\)\(\frac { 3 } { 64 }\)\(\frac { 1 } { 256 }\)
  3. Find \(\mathrm { E } ( X )\).
    Eli throws the four dice at the same time on 96 occasions.
  4. Use an approximation to find the probability that he obtains at least two 2 s on fewer than 20 of these occasions.