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June 2002 p6 q7
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Another garden shop sells polyanthus plants in boxes of 100. The shop’s advertisement states that the probability of any polyanthus plant producing a pink flower is 0.3. Use a suitable approximation to find the probability that a box contains fewer than 35 plants which produce pink flowers.
Solution
Let the random variable \(X\) represent the number of plants producing pink flowers in a box of 100. \(X\) follows a binomial distribution with parameters \(n = 100\) and \(p = 0.3\).
To approximate this binomial distribution, we use a normal distribution with mean \(\mu\) and variance \(\sigma^2\).