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Date November 2019 Marks available 6 Reference code 19N.2.AHL.TZ0.H_7
Level Additional Higher Level Paper Paper 2 Time zone Time zone 0
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Question

Runners in an athletics club have season’s best times for the 100 m, which can be modelled by a normal distribution with mean 11.6 seconds and standard deviation 0.8 seconds. To qualify for a particular competition a runner must have a season’s best time of under 11 seconds. A runner from this club who has qualified for the competition is selected at random. Find the probability that he has a season’s best time of under 10.7 seconds.

Markscheme

T N ( 11.6 0.8 2 )

P ( T < 10.7 | T < 11 )             (M1)

= P ( T < 10.7 T < 11 ) P ( T < 11 )             (M1)

= P ( T < 10.7 ) P ( T < 11 )             (M1)

P ( T < 10.7 ) = 0.1302             (A1)

P ( T < 11 ) = 0.2266             (A1)

P ( T < 10.7 | T < 11 ) = 0.575             A1

Note: Accept only 0.575.

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Syllabus sections

Topic 4—Statistics and probability » SL 4.9—Normal distribution and calculations
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