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Date May 2014 Marks available 6 Reference code 14M.1.hl.TZ2.11
Level HL only Paper 1 Time zone TZ2
Command term Draw and Find Question number 11 Adapted from N/A

Question

Mobile phone batteries are produced by two machines. Machine A produces 60% of the daily output and machine B produces 40%. It is found by testing that on average 2% of batteries produced by machine A are faulty and 1% of batteries produced by machine B are faulty.

(i)     Draw a tree diagram clearly showing the respective probabilities.

(ii)     A battery is selected at random. Find the probability that it is faulty.

(iii)     A battery is selected at random and found to be faulty. Find the probability that it was produced by machine A.

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In a pack of seven transistors, three are found to be defective. Three transistors are selected from the pack at random without replacement. The discrete random variable X represents the number of defective transistors selected.

(i)     Find P(X=2).

(ii)     Copy and complete the following table:


 

(iii)     Determine E(X).

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Markscheme

(i)
     A1A1

 

Note:     Award A1 for a correctly labelled tree diagram and A1 for correct probabilities.

 

(ii)     P(F)=0.6×0.02+0.4×0.01     (M1)

=0.016     A1

(iii)     P(A|F)=P(AF)P(F)

=0.6×0.020.016 (=0.0120.016)     M1

=0.75     A1

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(i)     METHOD 1

P(X=2)=3C2×4C17C3     (M1)

=1235     A1

METHOD 2

37×26×45×3     (M1)

=1235     A1

(ii)          A2

 

Note:     Award A1 if 435, 1835 or 135 is obtained.

 

(iii)     E(X)=xP(X=x)

E(X)=0×435+1×1835+2×1235+3×135     M1

=4535=(97)     A1

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Examiners report

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Syllabus sections

Topic 5 - Core: Statistics and probability » 5.2 » Concepts of trial, outcome, equally likely outcomes, sample space (U) and event.

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