CAIE S1 2011 November — Question 3

Exam BoardCAIE
ModuleS1 (Statistics 1)
Year2011
SessionNovember
TopicDiscrete Probability Distributions
TypeThree or more independent values

3 A factory makes a large number of ropes with lengths either 3 m or 5 m . There are four times as many ropes of length 3 m as there are ropes of length 5 m .
  1. One rope is chosen at random. Find the expectation and variance of its length.
  2. Two ropes are chosen at random. Find the probability that they have different lengths.
  3. Three ropes are chosen at random. Find the probability that their total length is 11 m .