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Discrete Random Variables & Given: Fri. Oct. 4th Due on: Fri. Oct. 11th

Binomial Probability Review Main: IBDP Past Paper Problems:

1 In a large university the probability that a student

• Your solutions must include clear working.
• Submit your work/answers on separate paper. is left handed is 0.08. A sample of 150 students is

• Calculator required. randomly selected. Let be the expected number

• Aim to complete in approximately: 60 minutes
Warm-Up: Standard textbook problems:
of left-handed students in this sample.
(a) Find . [2]
(b) Hence, find the probability that
exactly students are left handed; [2]

(c) Hence, find the probability that fewer

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than students are left handed. [2]
[Total: 6 marks]

2. The probability of obtaining “tails” when a

biased coin is tossed is .

The coin is tossed ten times.

(a) Find the probability of obtaining at least
d. Find 𝐸(𝑥).
four tails. [4]

(b) Find the probability of obtaining the fourth
2. At a manufacturing plant, 35% of the employees tail on the tenth toss. [3]
work night-shift. [Total: 7 marks]

If 7 employees are each selected from the entire

grouo at random, find the probability that: 3. A factory makes lamps. The probability that a

a. Exactly 3 of them work night-shift. lamp is defective is 0.05. A random sample of 30

lamps is tested.
b. Less than 4 of them work night-shift.
(a) Find the probability that there is at least
c. At least 4 of them work night-shift.
one defective lamp in the sample. [4]

(b) Given that there is at least one defective
lamp in the sample, find the chance that
there are at most 2 defective lamps. [4]

[Total: 8 marks]

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4. A bag contains four gold balls and six silver (b)
balls. Two balls are drawn at random from the (i) A day is chosen at random. Write down the
bag, with replacement. Let be the number probability that Machine A has no breakdowns.
of gold balls drawn from the bag.
(ii) Five days are chosen at random. Find the
(a) Find: (i) Find . probability that Machine A has no
breakdowns on exactly 4 of these days. [3]
(ii) Find .

(iii) Hence, find . [8] (c) Let be the number of breakdowns of
Machine B on any given day. The probability
(b) Fourteen balls are drawn from the bag, distribution for can be modelled by the
with replacement. Find the probability following table.
that exactly five of the balls are gold. [2]

(c) Find the probability that at most

five of the balls are gold. [2]
Find . [2]

(d) Given that at most five of the balls are

gold, find the probability that exactly (d) On Tuesday, the factory uses both Machine A
five of the balls are gold. Give the and Machine B. The variables and are
answer correct to 2dp. [2] independent.

[Total: 14 marks] (i) Find the probability that there are exactly
two breakdowns on Tuesday.

(ii) Given that there are exactly two breakdowns
5. A factory has two machines, A and B. on Tuesday, find the probability that both
The number of breakdowns of each machine is breakdowns are of Machine A. [8]
independent from day to day.
[Total: 15 marks]
Let be the number of breakdowns of Machine
A on any given day. The probability distribution
for can be modelled by the following table.

(a) Find . [2]

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