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The distance achieved in a long jump competition by students at a school is normally distributed with mean 3.8 metres and standard deviation 0.9 metres.
Students who achieve a distance greater than 4.3 metres receive a medal.
(a) Find the proportion of students who receive medals.
(3)
The school wishes to give a certificate of achievement or a medal to the 80% of students who achieve a distance of at least d metres.
(b) Find the value of d.
(3)
Of those who received medals, the 31 who jump the furthest will receive gold medals.
(c) Find the shortest distance, g metres, that must be achieved to receive a gold medal.
(4)
A journalist from the local newspaper interviews a randomly selected group of 3 medal winners.
(d) Find the exact probability that there is at least one gold medal winner in the group.
(3)
解答
(a)
解法一
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收 medal 表示 D>4.3。标准化后查右尾概率。
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Let D be the distance jumped.
D∼N(3.8,0.92).
Then
P(D>4.3)=P(Z>0.94.3−3.8)=P(Z>0.555…).
Using tables,
P(D>4.3)≈1−0.7123=0.2877.
So the proportion is approximately
0.288.
(b)
解法一
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成绩至少 d 的人占 80%,所以 d 是左侧 20% 的分位点,对应 z=−0.8416。
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Since P(D≥d)=0.80,
P(D<d)=0.20.
Thus
0.9d−3.8=−0.8416.
So
d=3.8−0.8416(0.9)=3.0425….
Therefore
d=3.04 m.
(c)
解法一
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Gold 是 medal winners 中最远的三分之一,所以 P(D>g) 是 P(D>4.3) 的三分之一。
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Since the top third of medal winners receive gold medals,
P(D>g)=31P(D>4.3).
Using part (a),
P(D>g)=31(0.289257…)=0.096419….
So
P(D<g)=1−0.096419…=0.903580….
This gives
0.9g−3.8=1.3022….
Therefore
g=3.8+1.3022…(0.9)=4.972….
So
g=4.97 m.
(d)
解法一
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在 medal winners 中,每个人是 gold winner 的概率是 31。至少一个通常用补集更快:1− 没有 gold 的概率。
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For a medal winner,
P(gold)=31.
Therefore
P(no gold)=(32)3.
Hence
P(at least one gold)=1−(32)3=1−278=2719.