CAIE S1 2019 November — Question 7

Exam BoardCAIE
ModuleS1 (Statistics 1)
Year2019
SessionNovember
TopicBinomial Distribution
TypeMultiple independent binomial calculations

7 A competition is taking place between two choirs, the Notes and the Classics. There is a large audience for the competition.
  • \(30 \%\) of the audience are Notes supporters.
  • \(45 \%\) of the audience are Classics supporters.
  • The rest of the audience are not supporters of either of these choirs.
  • No one in the audience supports both of these choirs.
    1. A random sample of 6 people is chosen from the audience.
      (a) Find the probability that no more than 2 of the 6 people are Notes supporters.
      (b) Find the probability that none of the 6 people support either of these choirs.
    2. A random sample of 240 people is chosen from the audience. Use a suitable approximation to find the probability that fewer than 50 do not support either of the choirs.
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