CAIE S2 2008 November — Question 1

Exam BoardCAIE
ModuleS2 (Statistics 2)
Year2008
SessionNovember
TopicCombinations & Selection

1 Alan wishes to choose one child at random from the eleven children in his music class. The children are numbered \(2,3,4\), and so on, up to 12 . Alan then throws two fair dice, each numbered from 1 to 6 , and chooses the child whose number is the sum of the scores on the two dice.
  1. Explain why this is an unsatisfactory method of choosing a child.
  2. Describe briefly a satisfactory method of choosing a child.