CAIE S1 2019 November — Question 6

Exam BoardCAIE
ModuleS1 (Statistics 1)
Year2019
SessionNovember
TopicNormal Distribution
TypeEstimate from percentile/frequency data

6 The heights, in metres, of fir trees in a large forest have a normal distribution with mean 40 and standard deviation 8 .
  1. Find the probability that a fir tree chosen at random in this forest has a height less than 45 metres.
  2. Find the probability that a fir tree chosen at random in this forest has a height within 5 metres of the mean.
    In another forest, the heights of another type of fir tree are modelled by a normal distribution. A scientist measures the heights of 500 randomly chosen trees of this type. He finds that 48 trees are less than 10 m high and 76 trees are more than 24 m high.
  3. Find the mean and standard deviation of the heights of trees of this type.