CAIE S2 2013 November — Question 6

Exam BoardCAIE
ModuleS2 (Statistics 2)
Year2013
SessionNovember
TopicLinear combinations of normal random variables
TypeSingle sum threshold probability

6 The lifetimes, in hours, of Longlive light bulbs and Enerlow light bulbs have the independent distributions \(\mathrm { N } \left( 1020,45 ^ { 2 } \right)\) and \(\mathrm { N } \left( 2800,52 ^ { 2 } \right)\) respectively.
  1. Find the probability that the total of the lifetimes of 5 randomly chosen Longlive bulbs is less than 5200 hours.
  2. Find the probability that the lifetime of a randomly chosen Enerlow bulb is at least 3 times that of a randomly chosen Longlive bulb.