CAMBRIDGE A LEVEL PROGRAMME A2 TRIAL EXAMINATION AUGUST/SEPTEMBER 2009 (une 2008 intake) Tuesday 8 September 2008 3.30 am 9.45 am MATHEMATICS. 9709/72 PAPER 7 Probability & Statistics 2 (S2) ‘hour 15 minutes ‘Adstonsl materials: Answer Becket Paper READ THESE INSTRUCTIONS FIRST Turnoverpeentage of atempts on which she ‘ut the test, using & 108% significance level At a busy cond junction, the numbers of aceldents that oscur are distributed he Poisson distbution. Ifthe mean number of accidents that per week, find ei no accident oceurin a period of wowesks. 2} 5] paticula weeks at east 20 accidents occur ‘The lifetime of Ini bateies ts normally disibuted with mean 1000 hours and standard deviation of 25 hour. i) Wi The lfm of Deylor bateries is normally distributed with mean 7900 hours and standard deviation of 50 hous, ‘A normal population has mean 41 and variance 1. Tw proposals are made for “ Hyw=4, Hsu. A random sample of 16 i taken fom the population. Ifthe sample mean more than 395, then His accepted, 1 Find the probability of making a Type Lerr in this tet ) 4 A random sample of 10 readings gave sample mean of 394, what ‘he probebiliy of Type Memon if = 398?‘ statis textbooks ae recorded a8 “The masses, tothe nearest gram, below. eh 935 11ST 1020397895 760 928 L008 836 {Find unbiased estimates of the population mean and variance a 18 isknown to be 40530, calculate @ 95% interval for 31? f ‘When 120 assorted mathematics textbooks were weighed, 36 of them were fund to have masses above 1 Ke Find 290% confidence interval for the te proportion of mathemati toxbooks with masses less han T kg. a ‘The random variable. has the probability density function given by Wfl@-9 28x53 100 eee Show that k= 2, a 4 Show memo al id sn le range of X giving your answer inexact form.