CAIE S1 2023 November — Question 2

Exam BoardCAIE
ModuleS1 (Statistics 1)
Year2023
SessionNovember
TopicNormal Distribution
TypeMultiple probability calculations

2 The weights of large bags of pasta produced by a company are normally distributed with mean 1.5 kg and standard deviation 0.05 kg .
  1. Find the probability that a randomly chosen large bag of pasta weighs between 1.42 kg and 1.52 kg .
    The weights of small bags of pasta produced by the company are normally distributed with mean 0.75 kg and standard deviation \(\sigma \mathrm { kg }\). It is found that \(68 \%\) of these small bags have weight less than 0.9 kg .
  2. Find the value of \(\sigma\).