Edexcel A Level Further Maths Paper 3B: Further Statistics 1 June 2022 question paper 9FM0/3B

A researcher is investigating the number of female cubs present in litters of size 4 He believes that the number of female cubs in a litter can be modelled by B(4, 0.5) He randomly selects 100 litters each of size 4 and records the number of female cubs. The results are recorded in the table below.

He calculated the expected frequencies as follows

Find the value of r and the value of s

Carry out a suitable test, at the 5% level of significance, to determine whether or not the number of female cubs in a litter can be modelled by B(4, 0.5) You should clearly state your hypotheses and the critical value used.

The discrete random variable X has probability distribution

where b is a constant and b 5

Find E(X) in terms of b

Given that Var(X) = 34.26

find the value of b

Find P(X² < 2 – 3X)

During the summer, mountain rescue team A receives calls for help randomly with a rate of 0.4 per day.

Find the probability that during the summer, mountain rescue team A receives at least 19 calls for help in 28 randomly selected days.

The leader of mountain rescue team A randomly selects 250 summer days from the last few years. She records the number of calls for help received on each of these days.

Using a Poisson approximation, estimate the probability of the leader finding at least 20 of these days when more than 1 call for help was received by mountain rescue team A.

Mountain rescue team A believes that the number of calls for help per day is lower in the winter than in the summer. The number of calls for help received in 42 randomly selected winter days is 8

Use a suitable test, at the 5% level of significance, to assess whether or not there is evidence that the number of calls for help per day is lower in the winter than in the summer. State your hypotheses clearly.

During the summer, mountain rescue team B receives calls for help randomly with a rate of 0.2 per day, independently of calls to mountain rescue team A.

The random variable C is the total number of calls for help received by mountain rescue teams A and B during a period of n days in the summer. On a Monday in the summer, mountain rescue teams A and B each receive a call for help.

Given that over the next n days P(C = 0) < 0.001

calculate the minimum value of n

Write down an assumption that needs to be made for the model to be appropriate.

In a game a spinner is spun repeatedly. When the spinner is spun, the probability of it landing on blue is 0.11

Find the probability that the spinner lands on blue

for the first time on the 6th spin,

for the first time before the 6th spin,

exactly 4 times during the first 6 spins,

for the 4th time on or before the 6th spin.

Zac and Izana play the game. They take turns to spin the spinner. The winner is the first one to have the spinner land on blue. Izana spins the spinner first.

Show that the probability of Zac winning is 0.471 to 3 significant figures.

A random sample of 150 observations is taken from a geometric distribution with parameter 0.3

Estimate the probability that the mean of the sample is less than 3.45

The discrete random variable V has probability distribution

Show that the probability generating function of V is

The discrete random variable W has probability generating function

Use calculus to find

E(W)

Var(W)

Given that V and W are independent,

find the probability generating function of X = V + W in its simplest form.

The discrete random variable Y = 2X + 3

Find the probability generating function of Y

Find P(Y = 15)

A machine fills bags with flour. The weight of flour delivered by the machine into a bag, X grams, is normally distributed with mean μ grams and standard deviation 30 grams. To check if there is any change to the mean weight of flour delivered by the machine into each bag, Olaf takes a random sample of 10 bags. The weight of flour, x grams, in each bag is recorded and = 1020

Test, at the 5% level of significance, H₀:μ = 1000 against H₁:μ 1000

Olaf decides to alter the test so that the hypotheses are H₀:μ = 1000 and H₁:μ 1000 but keeps the level of significance at 5% He takes a second sample of size n and finds the critical region, c

Find an equation for c in terms of n

When the true value of μ is 1020 grams, the probability of making a Type II error is 0.0050, to 2 significant figures.

Calculate the value of n and the value of c