CAIE S1 2011 June — Question 1

Exam BoardCAIE
ModuleS1 (Statistics 1)
Year2011
SessionJune
TopicBinomial Distribution
TypeProbability of range of values

1 Biscuits are sold in packets of 18. There is a constant probability that any biscuit is broken, independently of other biscuits. The mean number of broken biscuits in a packet has been found to be 2.7 . Find the probability that a packet contains between 2 and 4 (inclusive) broken biscuits.