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Nov 2019 p63 q7
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A competition is taking place between two choirs, the Notes and the Classics. There is a large audience for the competition.

  • 30% of the audience are Notes supporters.
  • 45% of the audience are Classics supporters.
  • The rest of the audience are not supporters of either of these choirs.
  • No one in the audience supports both of these choirs.

A random sample of 240 people is chosen from the audience. Use a suitable approximation to find the probability that fewer than 50 do not support either of the choirs.

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Nov 2023 p52 q3
3291

A factory produces a certain type of electrical component. It is known that 15% of the components produced are faulty. A random sample of 200 components is chosen.

Use an approximation to find the probability that more than 40 of these components are faulty.

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Nov 2019 p62 q4
3292

In Quarendon, 66% of households are satisfied with the speed of their wifi connection.

A random sample of 150 households in Quarendon is chosen. Use a suitable approximation to find the probability that more than 84 are satisfied with the speed of their wifi connection.

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June 2019 p63 q5
3293

On average, 34% of the people who go to a particular theatre are men.

Use an approximation to find the probability that, in a random sample of 600 people who go to the theatre, fewer than 190 are men.

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June 2019 p61 q5
3294

In a certain country the probability that a child owns a bicycle is 0.65.

A random sample of 250 children from this country is chosen. Use a suitable approximation to find the probability that fewer than 179 own a bicycle.

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