Second success on trial n

Find the probability that the second success occurs on a specific trial (negative binomial with r=2).

4 questions

CAIE S1 2024 June Q5
4 marks
5 Salah decides to attempt the crossword puzzle in his newspaper each day. The probability that he will complete the puzzle on any given day is 0.65 , independent of other days.
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  1. Find the probability that Salah completes the puzzle for the first time on the 5th day. [1]
  2. Find the probability that Salah completes the puzzle for the second time on the 5th day.
  3. Find the probability that Salah completes the puzzle fewer than 5 times in a week (7 days). [3]
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  4. Use a suitable approximation to find the probability that Salah completes the puzzle more than 50 times in a period of 84 days.
CAIE S1 2024 November Q1
1 Nicola throws an ordinary fair six-sided dice. The random variable \(X\) is the number of throws that she takes to obtain a 6.
  1. Find \(\mathrm { P } ( X < 8 )\).
  2. Find the probability that Nicola obtains a 6 for the second time on her 8th throw.
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OCR MEI Further Statistics A AS 2020 November Q3
3 A child is trying to draw court cards from an ordinary pack of 52 cards (court cards are Kings, Queens and Jacks; there are 12 in a pack). She draws cards, one at a time, with replacement, from the pack. Find the probabilities of the following events.
  1. She draws a court card for the first time on the sixth try.
  2. She draws a court card at least once in the first six tries.
  3. She draws a court card for the second time on the sixth try.
  4. She draws at least two court cards in the first six tries.
Edexcel FS1 Specimen Q5
  1. The probability of Richard winning a prize in a game at the fair is 0.15
Richard plays a number of games.
  1. Find the probability of Richard winning his second prize on his 8th game,
  2. State two assumptions that have to be made, for the model used in part (a) to be valid. M ary plays the same game, but has a different probability of winning a prize. She plays until she has won r prizes. The random variable \(G\) represents the total number of games M ary plays.
  3. Given that the mean and standard deviation of G are 18 and 6 respectively, determine whether Richard or Mary has the greater probability of winning a prize in a game.