CAIE S1 2013 November — Question 3

Exam BoardCAIE
ModuleS1 (Statistics 1)
Year2013
SessionNovember
TopicBinomial Distribution
TypeGeneral probability threshold

3 In a large consignment of mangoes, 15\% of mangoes are classified as small, 70\% as medium and \(15 \%\) as large.
  1. Yue-chen picks 14 mangoes at random. Find the probability that fewer than 12 of them are medium or large.
  2. Yue-chen picks \(n\) mangoes at random. The probability that none of these \(n\) mangoes is small is at least 0.1 . Find the largest possible value of \(n\).