CAIE S1 2007 June — Question 6

Exam BoardCAIE
ModuleS1 (Statistics 1)
Year2007
SessionJune
TopicBinomial Distribution
TypeNormal approximation to binomial

6 The probability that New Year's Day is on a Saturday in a randomly chosen year is \(\frac { 1 } { 7 }\).
  1. 15 years are chosen randomly. Find the probability that at least 3 of these years have New Year's Day on a Saturday.
  2. 56 years are chosen randomly. Use a suitable approximation to find the probability that more than 7 of these years have New Year's Day on a Saturday.