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Probability, MET2 2021 VCAA 4

A teacher coaches their school's table tennis team.

The teacher has an adjustable ball machine that they use to help the players practise.

The speed, measured in metres per second, of the balls shot by the ball machine is a normally distributed random variable .

The teacher sets the ball machine with a mean speed of 10 metres per second and standard deviation of 0.8 metres per second.

  1. Determine  , correct to three decimal places.   (1 mark)

  2. Find the value of , in metres per second, which 80% of ball speeds are below. Give your answer in metres per second, correct to one decimal place.   (1 mark) 

The teacher adjusts the height setting for the ball machine. The machine now shoots balls high above the table tennis table.

Unfortunately, with the new height setting, 8% of balls do not land on the table.

Let    be the random variable representing the sample proportion of the balls that do not land on the table in random samples of 25 balls.

  1. Find the mean and the standard deviation of  .   (2 marks)

  2. Use the binomial distribution to find  , correct to three decimal places.   (2 marks) 

The teacher can also adjust the spin setting on the ball machine.

The spin, measured in revolutions per second, is a continuous random variable  with the probability density function
 

       
 

  1. Find the maximum possible spin applied by the ball machine, in revolutions per second.   (1 mark)

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♦ Mean mark part (c) 45%.


 

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♦ Mean mark part (d) 49%.

 
 
 

 

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♦♦ Mean mark part (e) 21%.

 

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Probability, MET2 2017 VCAA 3

The time Jennifer spends on her homework each day varies, but she does some homework every day.

The continuous random variable , which models the time, in minutes, that Jennifer spends each day on her homework, has a probability density function , where

 

 

  1. Sketch the graph of on the axes provided below.  (3 marks)


     

       
     

  2. Find  .  (2 marks)

  3. Find  .  (2 marks)

  4. Find such that  , correct to four decimal places.  (2 marks)

  5. The probability that Jennifer spends more than 50 minutes on her homework on any given day is . Assume that the amount of time spent on her homework on any day is independent of the time spent on her homework on any other day.

     

    1. Find the probability that Jennifer spends more than 50 minutes on her homework on more than three of seven randomly chosen days, correct to four decimal places.  (2 marks)

    2. Find the probability that Jennifer spends more than 50 minutes on her homework on at least two of seven randomly chosen days, given that she spends more than 50 minutes on her homework on at least one of those days, correct to four decimal places.  (2 marks)

Let be the probability that on any given day Jennifer spends more than minutes on her homework.

Let be the probability that on two or three days out of seven randomly chosen days she spends more than minutes on her homework.

  1. Express as a polynomial in terms of .  (2 marks)

    1. Find the maximum value of , correct to four decimal places, and the value of for which this maximum occurs, correct to four decimal places.  (2 marks)

    2. Find the value of for which the maximum found in part g.i. occurs, correct to the nearest minute.  (2 marks)


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MARKER’S COMMENT: Many did not draw graph along -axis between 0 and 20 and for  .

 

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♦ Mean mark part (d) 36%.

 

 

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♦ Mean mark part (f) 36%.

 
 
   
 

 

g.i.   

♦♦ Mean mark part (g)(i) 30%.

 

 

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♦♦♦ Mean mark part (g)(ii) 8%.