CAIE S1 2012 June — Question 6

Exam BoardCAIE
ModuleS1 (Statistics 1)
Year2012
SessionJune
TopicNormal Distribution
TypePercentages or proportions given

6 The lengths, in cm, of trout in a fish farm are normally distributed. 96\% of the lengths are less than 34.1 cm and 70\% of the lengths are more than 26.7 cm .
  1. Find the mean and the standard deviation of the lengths of the trout. In another fish farm, the lengths of salmon, \(X \mathrm {~cm}\), are normally distributed with mean 32.9 cm and standard deviation 2.4 cm .
  2. Find the probability that a randomly chosen salmon is 34 cm long, correct to the nearest centimetre.
  3. Find the value of \(t\) such that \(\mathrm { P } ( 31.8 < X < t ) = 0.5\).