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Math Worksheet Grade: DP2 Level : AA HL/SL

Topic: AI Statsitics- Distribution [109 marks]
Exam Style Worksheet Duration 110 min
1a. [1 mark]
Jae Hee plays a game involving a biased six-sided die.
The faces of the die are labelled −3, −1, 0, 1, 2 and 5.
The score for the game, X, is the number which lands face up after the die is rolled.
The following table shows the probability distribution for X.
Find the exact value of p.

1b. [2 marks]
Jae Hee plays the game once.
Calculate the expected score.
1c. [3 marks]
Jae Hee plays the game twice and adds the two scores together.
Find the probability Jae Hee has a total score of −3.
2a. [1 mark]
Mr Burke teaches a mathematics class with 15 students. In this class there are 6
female students and 9 male students.
Each day Mr Burke randomly chooses one student to answer a homework question.
Find the probability that on any given day Mr Burke chooses a female student to answer a
question.
2b. [2 marks]
In the first month, Mr Burke will teach his class 20 times.
Find the probability he will choose a female student 8 times.
2c. [3 marks]
Find the probability he will choose a male student at most 9 times.
3. [6 marks]
In a coffee shop, the time it takes to serve a customer can be modelled by a normal
distribution with a mean of 1.5 minutes and a standard deviation of 0.4 minutes.
Two customers enter the shop together. They are served one at a time.
Find the probability that the total time taken to serve both customers will be less than 4
minutes.
Clearly state any assumptions you have made.
4a. [2 marks]
Mr Burke teaches a mathematics class with 15 students. In this class there are 6
female students and 9 male students.
Each day Mr Burke randomly chooses one student to answer a homework question.
In the first month, Mr Burke will teach his class 20 times.
Find the probability he will choose a female student 8 times.
4b. [4 marks]
The Head of Year, Mrs Smith, decides to select a student at random from the year group
to read the notices in assembly. There are 80 students in total in the year group. Mrs
Smith calculates the probability of picking a male student 8 times in the first 20 assemblies
is 0.153357 correct to 6 decimal places.
Find the number of male students in the year group.
5a. [1 mark]
A disc is divided into 9 sectors, number 1 to 9 . The angles at the centre of each of
the sectors un form an arithmetic sequence, with u1 being the largest angle.
9
Write down the value of Σ u i.
i=1
5b. [4 marks]
1
It is given that u9 = u1.
3
Find the value of u1.
5c. [2 marks]
A game is played in which the arrow attached to the centre of the disc is spun and
the sector in which the arrow stops is noted. If the arrow stops in sector 1 the player wins
10 points, otherwise they lose 2 points.
Let X be the number of points won
Find E ( X ) .
6. [4 marks]
George goes fishing. From experience he knows that the mean number of fish he
catches per hour is 1.1. It is assumed that the number of fish he catches can be modelled by
a Poisson distribution.
On a day in which George spends 8 hours fishing, find the probability that he will catch
more than 9 fish.
7a. [2 marks]
The weights of apples from Tony’s farm follow a normal distribution with mean $158\
text{\,g}$ and standard deviation $13\text{\,g}$. The apples are sold in bags that contain
six apples.
Find the mean weight of a bag of apples.
7b. [2 marks]
Find the standard deviation of the weights of these bags of apples.
7c. [2 marks]
Find the probability that a bag selected at random weighs more than 1 kg.
8a. [1 mark]
Hank sets up a bird table in his garden to provide the local birds with some food. Hank
notices that a specific bird, a large magpie, visits several times per month and he names
him Bill. Hank models the number of times per month that Bill visits his garden as a
Poisson distribution with mean 3.1.
Using Hank’s model, find the probability that Bill visits the garden on exactly four occasions
during one particular month.
8b. [2 marks]
Over the course of 3 consecutive months, find the probability that Bill visits the garden:
on exactly 12 occasions.
8c. [3 marks]
during the first and third month only.
8d. [4 marks]
Find the probability that over a 12-month period, there will be exactly 3 months when Bill
does not visit the garden.
8e. [4 marks]
After the first year, a number of baby magpies start to visit Hank’s garden. It may
be assumed that each of these baby magpies visits the garden randomly and
independently, and that the number of times each baby magpie visits the garden per month
is modelled by a Poisson distribution with mean 2.1.
Determine the least number of magpies required, including Bill, in order that
the probability of Hank’s garden having at least 30 magpie visits per month is greater than
0.2.
9a. [2 marks]
A discrete random variable X has the following probability distribution.
Find an expression for q in terms of p.

9b. [3 marks]
Find the value of p which gives the largest value of E ( X ) .
9c. [1 mark]
Hence, find the largest value of E ( X ) .
10a. [2 marks]
The weights, in grams, of individual packets of coffee can be modelled by a normal
distribution, with mean 102 g and standard deviation 8 g.
Find the probability that a randomly selected packet has a weight less than 100 g.
10b. [2 marks]
The probability that a randomly selected packet has a weight greater than w grams is 0.444 .
Find the value of w .
10c. [3 marks]
A packet is randomly selected. Given that the packet has a weight greater than 105 g, find
the probability that it has a weight greater than 110 g.
10d. [3 marks]
From a random sample of 500 packets, determine the number of packets that would
be expected to have a weight lying within 1.5 standard deviations of the mean.
10e. [4 marks]
Packets are delivered to supermarkets in batches of 80 . Determine the probability that at
least 20 packets from a randomly selected batch have a weight less than 95 g.
11a. [2 marks]
Consider the following graphs of normal distributions.
In the following table, write down the letter of the corresponding graph next to the given
mean and standard deviation.
11b. [2 marks]
At an airport, the weights of suitcases (in kg) were measured. The weights are normally
distributed with a mean of 20 kg and standard deviation of 3.5 kg.
Find the probability that a suitcase weighs less than 15 kg.
11c. [2 marks]
Any suitcase that weighs more than k kg is identified as excess baggage.
19.6 % of the suitcases at this airport are identified as excess baggage.
Find the value of k .
12a. [1 mark]
The price per kilogram of tomatoes, in euro, sold in various markets in a city is found to be
normally distributed with a mean of 3.22 and a standard deviation of 0.84.
On the following diagram, shade the region representing the probability that the price of a
kilogram of tomatoes, chosen at random, will be higher than 3.22 euro.
12b. [1 mark]
Find the price that is two standard deviations above the mean price.
12c. [2 marks]
Find the probability that the price of a kilogram of tomatoes, chosen at random, will be
between 2.00 and 3.00 euro.
12d. [2 marks]
To stimulate reasonable pricing, the city offers a free permit to the sellers whose price of a
kilogram of tomatoes is in the lowest 20 %.
Find the highest price that a seller can charge and still receive a free permit.
13a. [2 marks]
Let X be a random variable which follows a normal distribution with mean μ. Given
that P ( X < μ−5 )=0.2 , find
P ( X > μ+5 ) .
13b. [5 marks]
P ( X < μ+5| X > μ−5 ) .
14a. [2 marks]
Two independent random variables X and Y follow Poisson distributions.
Given that E ( X ) =3 and E ( Y )=4 , calculate
E ( 2 X +7 Y ).
14b. [3 marks]
Var( 4 X−3 Y ) .
14c. [4 marks]
E ( X −Y ).
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15a. [2 marks]
Malthouse school opens at 08:00 every morning.
The daily arrival times of the 500 students at Malthouse school follow a normal
distribution. The mean arrival time is 52 minutes after the school opens and the standard
deviation is 5 minutes.
Find the probability that a student, chosen at random arrives at least 60 minutes after the
school opens.
15b. [2 marks]
Find the probability that a student, chosen at random arrives between 45 minutes and 55
minutes after the school opens.
15c. [2 marks]
A second school, Mulberry Park, also opens at 08:00 every morning. The arrival times of
the students at this school follows exactly the same distribution as Malthouse school.
Given that, on one morning, 15 students arrive at least 60 minutes after the school opens,
estimate the number of students at Mulberry Park school.

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Math Worksheet Grade: DP2 Level : AA HL/SL

Find the exact value of p.

Find an expression for q in terms of p.

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