CAIE S1 2014 November — Question 3

Exam BoardCAIE
ModuleS1 (Statistics 1)
Year2014
SessionNovember
TopicBinomial Distribution
TypeDirect binomial probability calculation

3 The number of books read by members of a book club each year has the binomial distribution \(B ( 12,0.7 )\).
  1. State the greatest number of books that could be read by a member of the book club in a particular year and find the probability that a member reads this number of books.
  2. Find the probability that a member reads fewer than 10 books in a particular year.