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IAL 2021 Jan Q6

A Level / Edexcel / S1

IAL 2021 Jan Paper · Question 6

题目

Problem

A disc of radius 1 cm is rolled onto a horizontal grid of rectangles so that the disc is equally likely to land anywhere on the grid. Each rectangle is 5 cm long and 3 cm wide. There are no gaps between the rectangles and the grid is sufficiently large so that no discs roll off the grid.

If the disc lands inside a rectangle without covering any part of the edges of the rectangle then a prize is won.

By considering the possible positions for the centre of the disc,

(a) show that the probability of winning a prize on any particular roll is

15<divstyle="text−align:right;">(3)</div>\frac15 <div style="text-align: right;">(3)</div>

A group of 15 students each roll the disc onto the grid twenty times and record the number of times, xx, that each student wins a prize. Their results are summarised as follows

∑x=61∑x2=295\sum x=61\qquad \sum x^2=295

(b) Find the standard deviation of the number of prizes won per student.

(2)

A second group of 12 students each roll the disc onto the grid twenty times and the mean number of prizes won per student is 3.5 with a standard deviation of 2

(c) Find the mean and standard deviation of the number of prizes won per student for the whole group of 27 students.

(7)

The 27 students also recorded the number of times that the disc covered a corner of a rectangle and estimated the probability to be 0.2216 (to 4 decimal places).

(d) Explain how this probability could be used to find an estimate for the value of π\pi and state the value of your estimate.

(3)

解答

(a)

解法一

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圆盘半径是 1 cm。若不碰到边，圆心必须离每条边至少 1 cm。因此在 5×35\times3 的矩形内，圆心可落的“安全区域”尺寸是 (5−2)×(3−2)=3×1(5-2)\times(3-2)=3\times1。

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The centre of the disc must be at least 11 cm from each edge of the rectangle.

So the possible region for the centre is a rectangle of dimensions

(5−2) cm×(3−2) cm=3 cm×1 cm.\begin{align*} (5-2)\text{ cm}\times(3-2)\text{ cm}=3\text{ cm}\times1\text{ cm}. \end{align*}

The area of this region is

3×1=3.\begin{align*} 3\times1=3. \end{align*}

The area of one rectangle in the grid is

5×3=15.\begin{align*} 5\times3=15. \end{align*}

Since the centre is equally likely to land anywhere in the rectangle,

P(win)=315=15.\begin{align*} P(\text{win})=\frac{3}{15}=\frac15. \end{align*}

Hence the probability of winning a prize is 15\frac15, as required.

(b)

解法一

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用 σ=∑x2n−xˉ2\sigma=\sqrt{\frac{\sum x^2}{n}-\bar x^2}，其中 n=15n=15。

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The mean for the first group is

xˉ=6115.\begin{align*} \bar x=\frac{61}{15}. \end{align*}

Therefore

σ= 29515−(6115)2= 1.7688….\begin{aligned} \sigma =&\,\sqrt{\frac{295}{15}-\left(\frac{61}{15}\right)^2}\\ =&\,1.7688\ldots. \end{aligned}

So the standard deviation is

1.77.\begin{align*} 1.77. \end{align*}

(c)

解法一

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要合并两组数据，需要合并 ∑x\sum x 和 ∑x2\sum x^2。第二组已知平均数和标准差，可以反推出第二组的总和与平方和。

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For the second group,

∑y=12(3.5)=42.\begin{align*} \sum y=12(3.5)=42. \end{align*}

Also,

22=∑y212−3.52.\begin{align*} 2^2=\frac{\sum y^2}{12}-3.5^2. \end{align*}

So

∑y2=12(22+3.52)=195.\begin{align*} \sum y^2=12(2^2+3.5^2)=195. \end{align*}

For the combined group,

∑z=61+42=103\begin{align*} \sum z=61+42=103 \end{align*}

and

∑z2=295+195=490.\begin{align*} \sum z^2=295+195=490. \end{align*}

The combined mean is

zˉ=10327=3.8148….\begin{align*} \bar z=\frac{103}{27}=3.8148\ldots. \end{align*}

The combined standard deviation is

σz= 49027−(10327)2= 1.8961….\begin{aligned} \sigma_z =&\,\sqrt{\frac{490}{27}-\left(\frac{103}{27}\right)^2}\\ =&\,1.8961\ldots. \end{aligned}

Therefore the mean and standard deviation are

3.81and1.90.\begin{align*} 3.81\quad\text{and}\quad1.90. \end{align*}

(d)

解法一

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圆盘碰到某个角，等价于圆心落在该角周围半径 1 的圆形区域内。每个小矩形对应四个角的四分之一圆，总面积等于一个半径 1 的圆面积，即 π\pi。因此概率约为 π15\frac{\pi}{15}。

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For the disc to cover a corner, the centre must be within 11 cm of a vertex.

Within one 5 cm×3 cm5\text{ cm}\times3\text{ cm} rectangle, the four possible corner regions combine to make one full circle of radius 11 cm.

So the probability is

π(1)25×3=π15.\begin{align*} \frac{\pi(1)^2}{5\times3}=\frac{\pi}{15}. \end{align*}

Using the estimate 0.22160.2216,

π15≈0.2216.\begin{align*} \frac{\pi}{15}\approx0.2216. \end{align*}

Therefore

π≈15(0.2216)=3.324.\begin{align*} \pi\approx15(0.2216)=3.324. \end{align*}