CAIE S1 2002 June — Question 7

Exam BoardCAIE
ModuleS1 (Statistics 1)
Year2002
SessionJune
TopicBinomial Distribution
TypeFinding binomial parameters from properties

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  1. A garden shop sells polyanthus plants in boxes, each box containing the same number of plants. The number of plants per box which produce yellow flowers has a binomial distribution with mean 11 and variance 4.95.
    (a) Find the number of plants per box.
    (b) Find the probability that a box contains exactly 12 plants which produce yellow flowers.
  2. Another garden shop sells polyanthus plants in boxes of 100 . The shop's advertisement states that the probability of any polyanthus plant producing a pink flower is 0.3 . Use a suitable approximation to find the probability that a box contains fewer than 35 plants which produce pink flowers.