OCR GCE AS Level Further Maths B (MEI) Statistics a (optional - choose any two of Y411/Y412/Y413/Y414) November 2021 question paper Y412

The random variable X represents the clutch size (the number of eggs laid) by female birds of a particular species. The probability distribution of X is given in the table.

Find each of the following.

• E(X)

• Var(X)

On average 65% of eggs laid result in a young bird successfully leaving the nest.

Find the mean number of young birds that successfully leave the nest.

Find the standard deviation of the number of young birds that successfully leave the nest.

A football player is practising taking penalties. On each attempt the player has a 70% chance of scoring a goal. The random variable X represents the number of attempts that it takes for the player to score a goal.

Determine P(X = 4).

Find each of the following.

• E(X)

• Var(X)

Determine the probability that the player needs exactly 4 attempts to score 2 goals.

The player has n attempts to score a goal.

Determine the least value of n for which the probability that the player first scores a goal

on the n th attempt is less than 0.001.

Determine the least value of n for which the probability that the player scores at least one

goal in n attempts is at least 0.999.

A student is investigating the link between temperature (in degrees Celsius) and electricity consumption (in Gigawatt-hours) in the country in which he lives.

The student has read that there is strong negative correlation between daily mean temperature over the whole country and daily electricity consumption during a year. He wonders if this applies to an individual season. He therefore obtains data on the mean temperature and electricity consumption on ten randomly selected days in the summer. The spreadsheet output below shows the data, together with a scatter diagram to illustrate the data.

Calculate Pearson’s product moment correlation coefficient between daily mean temperature

and daily electricity consumption.

The student decides to carry out a hypothesis test to investigate whether there is negative correlation between daily mean temperature and daily electricity consumption during the summer.

Explain why the student decides to carry out a test based on Pearson’s product moment

correlation coefficient.

Show that the test at the 5% significance level does not result in the null hypothesis being

rejected.

The student concludes that there is no correlation between the variables in the summer months.

Comment on the student’s conclusion.

It is known that in an electronic circuit, the number of electrons passing per nanosecond can be modelled by a Poisson distribution. In a particular electronic circuit, the mean number of electrons passing per nanosecond is 12.

Determine the probability that there are more than 15 electrons passing in a randomly

selected nanosecond.

Determine the probability that there are fewer than 50 electrons passing in a randomly

selected period of 5 nanoseconds.

Explain what you can deduce about the electrons passing in the circuit from the fact that a

Poisson distribution is a suitable model.

A fair spinner has five faces, labelled 0, 1, 2, 3, 4.

State the distribution of the score when the spinner is spun once.

Determine the probability that, when the spinner is spun twice, one of the scores is less than 2

and the other is at least 2.

Find the variance of the total score when the spinner is spun 5 times.

A health researcher is investigating the relationship between age and maximum heart rate.

A commonly quoted formula states that ‘maximum heart rate = 220 - age in years’. The researcher wants to check if this formula is a satisfactory model for people who work in the large hospital where she is employed. The researcher selects a random sample of 20 people who work in her hospital, and measures their maximum heart rates.

Explain why the researcher selects a sample, rather than using all of the people who work in

the hospital.

The ages, x years, and maximum heart rates, y beats per minute, of the people in the researcher’s sample are summarised as follows.

These data are illustrated below.

Draw the line which represents the formula ‘maximum heart rate = 220 - age in years’

on the copy of the scatter diagram in the Printed Answer Booklet.

Comment on how well this model fits the data.

Determine the equation of the regression line of maximum heart rate on age.

Use the equation of the regression line to predict the values of the maximum heart rate for each of the following ages.

• 40 years

• 5 years

Comment on the reliability of your predictions in part (d).

A biologist is investigating migrating butterflies. Fig. 7.1 shows the numbers of migrating butterflies passing her location in 100 randomly chosen one-minute periods.

Use the data to show that a suitable estimate for the mean number of butterflies passing

her location per minute is 3.3.

Explain how the value of the variance estimate calculated from the sample supports the

suggestion that a Poisson distribution may be a suitable model for these data.

The biologist decides to carry out a test to investigate whether a Poisson distribution may be a suitable model for these data.

In this question you must show detailed reasoning.

Complete the copy of Fig. 7.2 of expected frequencies and contributions for a chi-squared

test in the Printed Answer Booklet.

Complete the chi-squared test at the 5% significance level.