CAIE S1 2002 November — Question 3

Exam BoardCAIE
ModuleS1 (Statistics 1)
Year2002
SessionNovember
TopicNormal Distribution
TypeMixed calculations with boundaries

3 The distance in metres that a ball can be thrown by pupils at a particular school follows a normal distribution with mean 35.0 m and standard deviation 11.6 m .
  1. Find the probability that a randomly chosen pupil can throw a ball between 30 and 40 m .
  2. The school gives a certificate to the \(10 \%\) of pupils who throw further than a certain distance. Find the least distance that must be thrown to qualify for a certificate.