CAIE S1 2004 November — Question 5

Exam BoardCAIE
ModuleS1 (Statistics 1)
Year2004
SessionNovember
TopicNormal Distribution
TypeIndependent events across days/trials

5 The length of Paulo's lunch break follows a normal distribution with mean \(\mu\) minutes and standard deviation 5 minutes. On one day in four, on average, his lunch break lasts for more than 52 minutes.
  1. Find the value of \(\mu\).
  2. Find the probability that Paulo's lunch break lasts for between 40 and 46 minutes on every one of the next four days.