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Date May 2021 Marks available 2 Reference code 21M.1.AHL.TZ1.14
Level Additional Higher Level Paper Paper 1 Time zone Time zone 1
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Question

The weights of apples from Tony’s farm follow a normal distribution with mean 158 g158g and standard deviation 13 g13g. The apples are sold in bags that contain six apples.

Find the mean weight of a bag of apples.

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Find the standard deviation of the weights of these bags of apples.

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b.

Find the probability that a bag selected at random weighs more than 1kg1kg.

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c.

Markscheme

158×6=948(g)158×6=948(g)           (M1)A1


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a.

variance 6×1326×132           (M1)

SD=31.8(g)  (136, 31.8433)SD=31.8(g)  (136, 31.8433)           A1


[2 marks]

b.

X~N(948, 31.84332)X~N(948, 31.84332)

P(X>1000)=0.0512   (0.0512350)P(X>1000)=0.0512   (0.0512350)           (M1)A1


Note: Accept 0.0510 (0.0510014)0.0510 (0.0510014) if 33 sf value 31.831.8 is used.
Award (M1)A1FT if the answer is correct for their SD, even if no working is shown. e.g. If the SD is 7878 then accept 0.2520.252.


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Syllabus sections

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