CAIE S1 2019 November — Question 7

Exam BoardCAIE
ModuleS1 (Statistics 1)
Year2019
SessionNovember
TopicNormal Distribution
TypeMultiple probability calculations

7 The shortest time recorded by an athlete in a 400 m race is called their personal best (PB). The PBs of the athletes in a large athletics club are normally distributed with mean 49.2 seconds and standard deviation 2.8 seconds.
  1. Find the probability that a randomly chosen athlete from this club has a PB between 46 and 53 seconds.
  2. It is found that \(92 \%\) of athletes from this club have PBs of more than \(t\) seconds. Find the value of \(t\).
    Three athletes from the club are chosen at random.
  3. Find the probability that exactly 2 have PBs of less than 46 seconds.
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