CAIE S1 2022 November — Question 6

Exam BoardCAIE
ModuleS1 (Statistics 1)
Year2022
SessionNovember
TopicApproximating Binomial to Normal Distribution
TypeCombined binomial and normal events

6 At a company's call centre, \(90 \%\) of callers are connected immediately to a representative.
A random sample of 12 callers is chosen.
  1. Find the probability that fewer than 10 of these callers are connected immediately.
    A random sample of 80 callers is chosen.
  2. Use an approximation to find the probability that more than 69 of these callers are connected immediately.
  3. Justify the use of your approximation in part (b).