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A patient arrives at 11.30 a.m.

(b) Find the probability that the next patient arrives before 11.45 a.m.
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(2)

A customer has been queueing for 3 minutes'

(d) Find the probability that this customer willbe queueing for at least 7 minutes.
(3)

Three customers are selected at random'

(e) Find the probability that exactly 2 of them had to queue for longer than 3 minutes'
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Give two reasons why a Poisson distribution coold be a suitable model for the
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(2)

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hypothesis that the mean number of emails received in a 10 minute period
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recorded.

During this period 8 emails were received'

(d) comment on the company's claim in the light of this value. Justify your answer.
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The cadet fires 10 shots from a distance of 40 m.

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(ii) Find the probability that at least 8 shots hit the target'
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The cadet fires 20 shots from a distance of xm.

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A company sells seeds and claims that 55o/o of its pea seeds germinate.

(b) Write down a reason why the company should not justifiz their claim by testing all the
pea seeds they produce.
(1)

To test the company's claim, a random sample of 220 pea seeds was planted'

(c) State the hypotheses for a two-tailed test of the company's claim.
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Given that 135 of the 220 pea seeds germinated,

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