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June 2017 p62 q7
3065

During the school holidays, each day Khalid either rides on his bicycle with probability 0.6, or on his skateboard with probability 0.4. Khalid does not ride on both on the same day.

There are 45 days of school holidays. Show that the variance of the number of days Khalid rides on his skateboard is the same as the variance of the number of days that Khalid rides on his bicycle.

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Nov 2016 p61 q3
3066

Visitors to a Wildlife Park in Africa have independent probabilities of 0.9 of seeing giraffes, 0.95 of seeing elephants, 0.85 of seeing zebras and 0.1 of seeing lions.

  1. Find the probability that a visitor to the Wildlife Park sees all these animals.
  2. Find the probability that, out of 12 randomly chosen visitors, fewer than 3 see lions.
  3. 50 people independently visit the Wildlife Park. Find the mean and variance of the number of these people who see zebras.
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Nov 2014 p61 q5
3067

Screws are sold in packets of 15. Faulty screws occur randomly. A large number of packets are tested for faulty screws and the mean number of faulty screws per packet is found to be 1.2.

  1. Show that the variance of the number of faulty screws in a packet is 1.104.
  2. Find the probability that a packet contains at most 2 faulty screws.

Damien buys 8 packets of screws at random.

  1. Find the probability that there are exactly 7 packets in which there is at least 1 faulty screw.
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June 2013 p62 q4
3068

Robert uses his calculator to generate 5 random integers between 1 and 9 inclusive.

(i) Find the probability that at least 2 of the 5 integers are less than or equal to 4.

Robert now generates n random integers between 1 and 9 inclusive. The random variable X is the number of these n integers which are less than or equal to a certain integer k between 1 and 9 inclusive. It is given that the mean of X is 96 and the variance of X is 32.

(ii) Find the values of n and k.

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June 2011 p62 q1
3069

A biased die was thrown 20 times and the number of 5s was noted. This experiment was repeated many times and the average number of 5s was found to be 4.8. Find the probability that in the next 20 throws the number of 5s will be less than three.

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