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1. When a school needs cleaning materials, it calls one of the three companies A, B or C. 50% of
the calls are to company A, 20% to company B, whilst 30% are to company C. The probability
that a delivery is late from A is 4%, from B is 6%, and from C is 17% of the required time.
a) Find the probability that the school calls for an order and it arrives late. [3]
b) Given that the schools order arrives late, find the conditional probability that it called
company B. [3]
2. A certain school has a total of 18 prefects, 9 boys and 9 girls. A committee of 7 prefects is to be
chosen such that it has at least 4 boys and at least two girls.
a) Find the number of possible ways of choosing the six prefects. [4]
b) Among the 7 prefects are 4 boys and 3 girls. When they are introduced during assembly
they stand in a line. Find the number of ways in which the prefects should stand such
that the girls are not next to each other. [3]
3.
a) State any three methods of collecting data. [3]
b) A school uses one brand of light bulbs inside the building. The life times of a sample of
100 bulbs were recoded as follows.
Time in month 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11
Number of bulbs 16 21 17 15 11 5 5 4 3 2 1

i) State median time of bulbs. [1]

4. A salesman sales a radio by calling potential customers. The probability that any particular call
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achieves a sale is 12, independently of all other calls. The salesman continues to make calls until
one call achieves a sale.
a) Name an appropriate distribution which models this distribution. [1]
b) Calculate the probability that the call that achieves a sale
i) is the fifth, [2]
ii) does not occur in the first five calls. [2]
c) Find the number of calls made by the salesman, the
i) mean,
ii) variance. [3]
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5. Serious delays on a certain railway line occurs at random at an average rate of one per week.
i) Find the probability that exactly two serious delays occur in a week. [2]
ii) Find the probability that at least four delays occur during a particular 4 week
period. [4]
iii) Taking a year to consist of thirteen 4- week periods, find the probability that in a
particular year there are at least eleven of these 4- week periods during which at
least 4 serious delays occur. [3]

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iv) Given that the probability of at least one delay occurring, in a period of 𝑛 weeks
is greater than 0.995, find the least possible integer value of 𝑛. [4]
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6. A random variable Y has a normal distribution with mean 𝜇 and variance 𝜎 . Given that
𝑃(𝑌 > 34) = 0.0228 and 𝑃(𝑌 < 25) = 0.0062. Find 𝜇 and 𝜎. [6]
7.
(a) Distinguish between independent and mutually exclusive events. [2]
(b) Alan and Alex play a game by firing a target. The first one to hit the target winds the
game. The probability that each one of them hits the target is 0.6. Alan fires first.
Find the probability that Alex win. [5]

8. The probability density function of the mass (in kg) of fish caught by a fisherman in a month is
𝑘𝑒 −3𝑥 , 𝑥 ≥ 0
given by 𝑓(𝑥) = {
0 ,𝑥 < 0
Find the
(a) value of k. [2]
(b) E(X) and Var(x) [4]
(c) probability that the fisherman will catch at least 60kg of fish, leaving the answer in exact
form. [2]

9. Bags of flower packed by a machine have masses which are normally distributed with mean 500
g and standard deviation 20 g. 4% of bags are rejected for being underweight and 2% of the
bags are rejected for being overweight. Between what range of values should the mass of a bag
of flour lie if it is to be accepted. [4]

10. A school has two bursars. Bursar T receives tuition fees and Bursar L receives levies. For Bursar
T, the time taken to save a learner is normally distributed with mean 150 seconds and standard
deviation 45 seconds.
Bursar L’s time is normally distributed with mean 180 seconds and standard deviation 50
seconds.
a)
i) Find the probability that the time taken for a randomly chosen leaner to be
served by bursar T is more than 180 seconds. [3]
ii) If the school has 1000 students, calculate the number of leaners who were
served in more than 180 seconds by bursar T. [2]
b) The Bursar L serves two leaners, one after the other. Assuming independence of times,
find the probability that the total time taken by bursar L to serve two leaners is less than
300 seconds. [5]
c) At a certain time Bursar T has 4 leaners on the queue and Bursar L has 3 leaners.
Assuming that these Bursars work independently, find the probability that bursar T will
serve 4 leaners before Bursar L serves 3 leaners. [6]

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