CAIE S1 2016 November — Question 6

Exam BoardCAIE
ModuleS1 (Statistics 1)
Year2016
SessionNovember
TopicNormal Distribution
TypeMixed calculations with boundaries

6 The weights of bananas in a fruit shop have a normal distribution with mean 150 grams and standard deviation 50 grams. Three sizes of banana are sold. Small: under 95 grams
Medium: between 95 grams and 205 grams
Large: over 205 grams
  1. Find the proportion of bananas that are small.
  2. Find the weight exceeded by \(10 \%\) of bananas. The prices of bananas are 10 cents for a small banana, 20 cents for a medium banana and 25 cents for a large banana.
  3. (a) Show that the probability that a randomly chosen banana costs 20 cents is 0.7286 .
    (b) Calculate the expected total cost of 100 randomly chosen bananas.