Date | November 2021 | Marks available | 2 | Reference code | 21N.1.AHL.TZ0.14 |
Level | Additional Higher Level | Paper | Paper 1 | Time zone | Time zone 0 |
Command term | Find | Question number | 14 | Adapted from | N/A |
Question
On Paul’s farm, potatoes are packed in sacks labelled . The weights of the sacks of potatoes can be modelled by a normal distribution with mean weight and standard deviation .
Find the probability that a sack is under its labelled weight.
Find the lower quartile of the weights of the sacks of potatoes.
The sacks of potatoes are transported in crates. There are sacks in each crate and the weights of the sacks of potatoes are independent of each other.
Find the probability that the total weight of the sacks of potatoes in a crate exceeds .
Markscheme
let be the random variable “the weight of a sack of potatoes”
(M1)
A1
[2 marks]
(M1)
A1
[2 marks]
attempt to sum independent random variables (M1)
(A1)
A1
[3 marks]
Examiners report
The first part of the question was often answered well but there were a number of candidates who interpreted finding by finding or something similar. Not all candidates, however, understood that the lower quartile is given by . Part (c) was less well understood. Attempts to sum independent random variables correctly involved multiplication of the mean by but the standard deviation and not the variance was incorrectly multiplied by .
The first part of the question was often answered well but there were a number of candidates who interpreted finding by finding or something similar. Not all candidates, however, understood that the lower quartile is given by . Part (c) was less well understood. Attempts to sum independent random variables correctly involved multiplication of the mean by but the standard deviation and not the variance was incorrectly multiplied by .
The first part of the question was often answered well but there were a number of candidates who interpreted finding by finding or something similar. Not all candidates, however, understood that the lower quartile is given by . Part (c) was less well understood. Attempts to sum independent random variables correctly involved multiplication of the mean by but the standard deviation and not the variance was incorrectly multiplied by .