CAIE S1 2024 March — Question 4

Exam BoardCAIE
ModuleS1 (Statistics 1)
Year2024
SessionMarch
TopicNormal Distribution
TypeExpected frequency with unknown parameter

4 A company sells small and large bags of rice. The masses of the small bags of rice are normally distributed with mean 1.20 kg and standard deviation 0.16 kg .
  1. In a random sample of 500 of these small bags of rice, how many would you expect to have a mass greater than 1.26 kg ?
    The masses of the large bags of rice are normally distributed with mean 2.50 kg and standard deviation \(\sigma \mathrm { kg } .20 \%\) of these large bags of rice have a mass less than 2.40 kg .
  2. Find the value of \(\sigma\).
    A random sample of 80 large bags of rice is chosen.
  3. Use a suitable approximation to find the probability that fewer than 22 of these large bags of rice have a mass less than 2.40 kg .