2021 May TZ1 P2 Q3

2021 May TZ1 P2 Q3

6 marks

A company produces bags of sugar whose masses, in grams, can be modelled by a normal distribution with mean \(1000\) and standard deviation \(3.5\). A bag of sugar is rejected for sale if its mass is less than \(995\) grams

  1. Find the probability that a bag selected at random is rejected.

    [2]
  2. Estimate the number of bags which will be rejected from a random sample of \(100\) bags.

    [1]
  3. Given that a bag is not rejected, find the probability that it has a mass greater than \(1005\) grams.

    [3]
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Answer:(a) \(0.0766\) (b) \(8\) (c) \(0.0829\)

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