CAIE S1 2003 November — Question 7

Exam BoardCAIE
ModuleS1 (Statistics 1)
Year2003
SessionNovember
TopicNormal Distribution
TypeIndependent events across days/trials

7 The length of time a person undergoing a routine operation stays in hospital can be modelled by a normal distribution with mean 7.8 days and standard deviation 2.8 days.
  1. Calculate the proportion of people who spend between 7.8 days and 11.0 days in hospital.
  2. Calculate the probability that, of 3 people selected at random, exactly 2 spend longer than 11.0 days in hospital.
  3. A health worker plotted a box-and-whisker plot of the times that 100 patients, chosen randomly, stayed in hospital. The result is shown below. \begin{figure}[h]
    \includegraphics[alt={},max width=\textwidth]{26776153-9477-4155-b5e4-f35e6d33a5ff-3_447_917_767_657} \captionsetup{labelformat=empty} \caption{Days}
    \end{figure} State with a reason whether or not this agrees with the model used in parts (i) and (ii).