Topic 5 Part 4 [96 marks]
The following is a cumulative frequency diagram for the time t, in minutes, taken by 80 students to complete a task.
1a. Write down the median.
[1 mark]
1b. Find the interquartile range.
[3 marks]
1c. Complete the frequency table below. [2 marks]
The probability of obtaining heads on a biased coin is 0.18. The coin is tossed seven times.
2a. Find the probability of obtaining exactly two heads. [2 marks]
2b. Find the probability of obtaining at least two heads.
[3 marks]
The scores of a test given to students are normally distributed with a mean of 21.
80% of the students have scores less than 23.7.
3a.
Find the standard deviation of the scores. [3 marks]
3b. A student is chosen at random. This student has the same probability of having a score less than 25.4 as having a score greater [4 marks]
than b.
(i) Find the probability the student has a score less than 25.4.
(ii) Find the value of b.
In a school with 125 girls, each student is tested to see how many sit-up exercises (sit-ups) she can do in one minute. The results are
given in the table below.
4a. (i) Write down the value of p. [3 marks]
(ii) Find the value of q.
4b.
Find the median number of sit-ups. [2 marks]
4c.
Find the mean number of sit-ups. [2 marks]
A factory makes switches. The probability that a switch is defective is 0.04. The factory tests a random sample of 100 switches.
5a.
Find the mean number of defective switches in the sample. [2 marks]
5b.
Find the probability that there are exactly six defective switches in the sample. [2 marks]
5c.
Find the probability that there is at least one defective switch in the sample. [3 marks]
A box contains a large number of biscuits. The weights of biscuits are normally distributed with mean
7 g and standard deviation
0.5 g .
6a.
One biscuit is chosen at random from the box. Find the probability that this biscuit [4 marks]
(i) weighs less than
8 g;
(ii) weighs between
6 g and
8 g.
6b.
Five percent of the biscuits in the box weigh less than d grams. [5 marks]
(i) Copy and complete the following normal distribution diagram, to represent this information, by indicating d, and shading the
appropriate region.
(ii) Find the value of d.
6c. The weights of biscuits in another box are normally distributed with mean [4 marks]
μ and standard deviation
0.5 g. It is known that
20% of the biscuits in this second box weight less than
5 g.
Find the value of
μ.
A box contains 100 cards. Each card has a number between one and six written on it. The following table shows the frequencies for
each number.
7a.
Calculate the value of k. [2 marks]
7b.
Find [5 marks]
(i) the median;
(ii) the interquartile range.
There are 20 students in a classroom. Each student plays only one sport. The table below gives their sport and gender.
8a.
One student is selected at random. [4 marks]
(i) Calculate the probability that the student is a male or is a tennis player.
(ii) Given that the student selected is female, calculate the probability that the student does not play football.
8b. Two students are selected at random. Calculate the probability that neither student plays football. [3 marks]
The following table shows the probability distribution of a discrete random variable X.
9a. Find the value of k. [4 marks]
9b. Find the expected value of X. [3 marks]
The heights of certain plants are normally distributed. The plants are classified into three categories.
The shortest
12.92% are in category A.
The tallest
10.38% are in category C.
All the other plants are in category B with heights between
r cm and
t cm .
10a.
Complete the following diagram to represent this information. [2 marks]
10b.
Given that the mean height is [5 marks]
6.84 cm and the standard deviation
0.25 cm , find the value of r and of t.
Paula goes to work three days a week. On any day, the probability that she goes on a red bus is
1
4
.
11a.
Write down the expected number of times that Paula goes to work on a red bus in one week. [2 marks]
11b.
In one week, find the probability that she goes to work on a red bus on exactly two days. [2 marks]
11c.
In one week, find the probability that she goes to work on a red bus on at least one day. [3 marks]
A four-sided die has three blue faces and one red face. The die is rolled.
Let B be the event a blue face lands down, and R be the event a red face lands down.
12a.
Write down [2 marks]
(i) P(B);
(ii) P(R).
12b. If the blue face lands down, the die is not rolled again. If the red face lands down, the die is rolled once again. This is [2 marks]
represented by the following tree diagram, where p, s, t are probabilities.
Find the value of p, of s and of t.
12c. Guiseppi plays a game where he rolls the die. If a blue face lands down, he scores 2 and is finished. If the red face lands [3 marks]
down, he scores 1 and rolls one more time. Let X be the total score obtained.
(i) Show that
P(X = 3) = 163 .
(ii) Find
P(X = 2) .
12d.
(i) Construct a probability distribution table for X. [5 marks]
(ii) Calculate the expected value of X.
12e. If the total score is 3, Guiseppi wins [4 marks]
$10. If the total score is 2, Guiseppi gets nothing.
Guiseppi plays the game twice. Find the probability that he wins exactly
$10.
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