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Nov 2002 p6 q6
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(i) A manufacturer of biscuits produces 3 times as many cream ones as chocolate ones. Biscuits are chosen randomly and packed into boxes of 10. Find the probability that a box contains equal numbers of cream biscuits and chocolate biscuits.
(ii) A random sample of 8 boxes is taken. Find the probability that exactly 1 of them contains equal numbers of cream biscuits and chocolate biscuits.
(iii) A large box of randomly chosen biscuits contains 120 biscuits. Using a suitable approximation, find the probability that it contains fewer than 35 chocolate biscuits.
Solution
(i) Let the probability of choosing a chocolate biscuit be \(p = \frac{1}{4}\) and a cream biscuit be \(1 - p = \frac{3}{4}\). The probability of having 5 chocolate and 5 cream biscuits in a box of 10 is given by:
(iii) For a large box of 120 biscuits, use the normal approximation. Let \(X\) be the number of chocolate biscuits. Then \(\mu = 120 \times 0.25 = 30\) and \(\sigma^2 = 30 \times 0.75 = 22.5\).