PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTION. 1. Given that a bus will be late to school is 0.1 .

Find the probability that in 5 days the bus will be late for two days. 2. The probability that Foo will win in a badminton game is 0.7 . if a set of 8 games will play find the probability Foo will win exactly 5 games. 1 3. In a certain area the probability that it will rain is . Find the probability that it 4 will rain exactly 3 days in a week. 4. Given that 20% of the durian that being sold is rotten .If a man buy 10 durians , find the probability that (a) Only one of the durian is rotten. (b) All the durian is rotten. 5. In a town A , the probability it will rain is 0.25 .Find the probability that in one week it will rain exactly 2 days. 2 6. The probability an archer will hit target is . Find the probability that the archer 3 will hit target exactly 2 times if he shoots 4 times. 7. In a box of apples , 20% are rotten.If 6 apples are drawn consecutively from the box find the probability that 3 are spoilt. 3 8. The probability that a smoker will get lung infection is . If a medical check is 5 done on the 5 smoker , what is the probability that at least one of them will get lung infection. 9. What is the probability to get 4 head when a coin is tose 10 times.

10. A box contain 6 green balls and 4 red balls , 5 balls were drawn out at random. Find the probability to get : (a) Green ball exactly 4 times.kali. (b) At least 2 red ball.

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PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTION. To find mean , Variance and standard Deviation. 1. Mean = np

2. Variance = npq 3. Standard deviation= npq 1. Cheong release 20 shots in a shooting trial. Given that the probability it will hit target is 0.4 . Find the mean , vaiance and standard deviation. 1 2. The probability to gey number 6 if a dice is tossed is , If a dice is tossed 100 6 times find the mean , var and standard deviation. 3. The probability that a sewing machine spoilt is 0.07 . If a factory have 500 sewing machines , find the mean and standard deviation. 4. The probability that a football player score a goal is 0.3 . How many trial will the player need to do so that the probability to score at least a goal is more than 0.95. 5. Sixth of the eight people in a town have a car . If 1236 people in that town have car find the the number of people in that town. , hence find the standard deviation. 3 6. In a certain area the probability it will rain is . Find the probability that in a 4 week it will rain : (a) Exactly 2 days. (b) Less than 3 days. 7. Given that 75 % of the tree that were planted by the gardener will bear fruit. If the gardenaer planted 5 trees , find the probability that at least 2 of the trees will bear fruit. 8. The passing mark in a certain exam is 80 . If 6 candidates pass the exam , and the variance is 5.976 . Find the number of candidates sitting for the exam. Hence find the probability that only one of the candidates pass the exam. 1 9. The probability that Susan win in a game is . Susan play several times and 4 the probability she win exactly one game is eight times the probability she lose in all games. Find the number of games Susan play.

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PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTION.

Normal Distribution Normal Dist . X to Standard Normal Dist. Z. X Find the probability : 1. Mean = 60 and standard deviation = 4 (i) P ( X > 68) (ii) P ( X > 58) (iii) P ( X < 56) (iv) P ( 56 < X < 68 ) 2. (i) (ii) (iii) Mean = 60 and standard deviation = 5 P ( X > 65 ) P ( X < 57 ) P ( 58 < X < 63 ) 3. Mean = 30 , standard deviation = 10 (i) (ii) P ( X > 35 ) P ( X < 28)

Z=

4. The marks for a group of student in a Mathematics test were normally distributed with the mean 60 and standard deviation 3. Find the probability that if one student is selected randomly will get; (a) marks less than 57 (b) marks between 55 and 65 5. Diameter of a round rotan that were produce from a factory were normally distributed with mean 4.5 and stan . devia. 0.5 cm . Find the prob. That the diameter Cari keb. bahawa sebatang rotan yang dipilih secara rawak mempunyai diameter yang (a) is more than 4.7 (b) is more than 4.4 6. The mass of a soap produce by a factory is normally distributed with the mean 140 g and variance 25 g. Find the probability that a soap chosen randomly will have a mass (a) more than 145.5 g ( b) between 138 g and 145 g.

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PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTION. 7. A survey is done on family income in a town ,the monthly income is normally distributed with mean RM1200 and standard deviation RM 80 (a) Find the percentage of family whose income less than RM1100. (b) If 30 family has an income between RM 1000 and RM 1300 , find the number of family involve in the survey.. 8. The age of citizen in a town is normally distributed with mean 45 years and variance 36 years. (a)Find the probability that the citizen chosen is more than 50 years. (b) Estimate the number of people age more than 50 years if the total number of people in the town is 60000. 9. The marks obtain for 5000 candidates in exam is normally distributed with mean 45 and standard deviation 8. (a) If a mark 60 or more are classified as distinction ,find the number of candidate with distinction. (b) If 15 % of the student fail the exam find the minimum marks to pass the exam. Exam Format: QUESTION 11 Section B Paper 2 For part (a) Use
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cr ( p) r (q ) n r

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mean = np

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st. deviatn =

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(b) Use (i) Z = from table.

X mean (ii) sketch normal distrib. ..shade (iii) find answer s tan .deviat

10. (a) In a survey 20% of the population in town M is classified as poor ..If 10 people is chosen at random find the probability at most 2 people are poor. (b) Given that X is a discrete variables with normal distribution with mean 80 and variance 144 . Find (i) z score when X = 75 (ii) the value of X when z = 0.6 (iii) P ( 76 X 82) . 11. (a) The result of a study shows that 20% of the student use their own transport to school.If 8 student are chosen ,calculate the probability that (i) exactly 3 of them use own transport to school. (ii) less than 2 use their own transport to school. (b) The masses of pumpkin follow a normal distribution with mean 3.5 kg and stan. deviation 0.8 kg .Find (i) the probability has a mass of more than 4.2 kg . (ii) the value of m if 70% of the pumpkins have masses more than m kg.

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PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTION. 12. (a) The probability that an archer hits the target is p . After training , it was found that the mean score was 4.8 when each archer was given 8 chances. (i) Find p. (ii) Find the probability that he will he the target at least once. (b) In a survey , the height of the student in a particular school is normally distributed with mean 155 and standard deviation 15 . (i) If a student is chosen at random , find the probability that his height is less than 148. (ii) Given that 15% of the student have heights more than h cm , find h. 13. A test paper consist of 40 question . Each question is followed by four choices of answer where only one of them is correct. (a) Salma answer all the question by randomly chooses an answer. (i) Estimate the number of question she answered correctly. (ii) Find the standard deviation of the number of question she answered correctly. (b) Basri answerd 30 question correctly and randomly chooses an answer for each of the remaining 10 question . (i) 36 question correctly (ii) at least 32 question corretly . 14. The masses of mangoes from an orchard have a normal distribution with mean 300 gm and standard deviation 80 gm. (a). Find the probability that a mango chosen randomly from this orchard has a mass of more than 168 kg. (b) A random sample of 500 mangoes is chosen. (i) Calculate the number of mangoes from this sample that have a mass of more than 168 kg. (ii) Given that 435 mangoes from this sample have a mass of more than m g .find thevalue of m. 15. (a) In a survey it is found that 2 out of 5 have handphone.If 8 student are chosen find the probability that : (i) exactly 2 have handphone. (ii) more than 2 have handphone. (b) The blood pressure of workers has normal distribution with mean 130 mmHg and standard deviation 16 mmHg . Blood pressure that is more than 150 mmHg is classifiedas `high blood pressure ` (i) Find the probability that the worker has a blood pressure between 114 mmHg and 150 mmHg (ii) It is found that 132 workers have high blood pressure . Find total numbers of workers.

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PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTION.

Normal distribution : If Z is a standard normal random variables , find the value of the following probability. 1. P ( Z > 0.637) 5. P ( Z - 0.34)

2. P ( Z 2.018 )

6. P ( -0.225 Z 0.135)

3. P( Z < -1.614 )

7. P ( -.0.25 < Z < 0)

4. P ( 0.5 < Z < 1.3)

8. P( -0.928 < Z -0.556 )

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PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTION.

Find the score z for each of the following. 1. P ( Z z ) = 0.255 5. P ( Z z ) = 0.65

2. P ( Z > z ) = 0.75

6. P ( Z z ) = 0.852

3. P ( Z < z ) = 0.325

7. P ( 0.32 < Z < z ) = 0.3477

4. P ( Z < z ) = 0.5498

8. P ( z < Z < 1.64 ) = 0.5975

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