CAIE S1 2006 November — Question 7

Exam BoardCAIE
ModuleS1 (Statistics 1)
Year2006
SessionNovember
TopicApproximating Binomial to Normal Distribution
TypeCombined binomial and normal events

7 A manufacturer makes two sizes of elastic bands: large and small. \(40 \%\) of the bands produced are large bands and \(60 \%\) are small bands. Assuming that each pack of these elastic bands contains a random selection, calculate the probability that, in a pack containing 20 bands, there are
  1. equal numbers of large and small bands,
  2. more than 17 small bands. An office pack contains 150 elastic bands.
  3. Using a suitable approximation, calculate the probability that the number of small bands in the office pack is between 88 and 97 inclusive.