CAIE S1 2012 June — Question 6

Exam BoardCAIE
ModuleS1 (Statistics 1)
Year2012
SessionJune
TopicNormal Distribution
TypeEstimate from percentile/frequency data

6 The lengths of body feathers of a particular species of bird are modelled by a normal distribution. A researcher measures the lengths of a random sample of 600 body feathers from birds of this species and finds that 63 are less than 6 cm long and 155 are more than 12 cm long.
  1. Find estimates of the mean and standard deviation of the lengths of body feathers of birds of this species.
  2. In a random sample of 1000 body feathers from birds of this species, how many would the researcher expect to find with lengths more than 1 standard deviation from the mean?