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Qualification => Subject Doubts => GCE AS & A2 Level => Math => Topic started by: Alpha on March 23, 2011, 08:56:29 am

Title: Can anyone attempt this please? (Statistics P6)
Post by: Alpha on March 23, 2011, 08:56:29 am
http://www.xtremepapers.net/CIE/International%20A%20And%20AS%20Level/9709%20-%20Mathematics/9709_w10_qp_62.pdf


Question 5.

Do not look at the markscheme please.


And you get 1 +rep for attempting the question, plus another one for not checking the ms.
Title: Re: Can anyone attempt this please? (Statistics P6)
Post by: Alpha on March 23, 2011, 12:07:56 pm
Miserable... my queries are never answered. :(
Title: Re: Can anyone attempt this please? (Statistics P6)
Post by: $tyli$h Executive on March 23, 2011, 12:35:35 pm
Miserable... my queries are never answered. :(

Ah, maybe that's because you're very genius. ;) And not everybody is on your level? :)

I didn't take stats... Maybe Ari, DK or others may be able to help.. :)
Title: Re: Can anyone attempt this please? (Statistics P6)
Post by: Alpha on March 23, 2011, 12:36:40 pm
Ah, maybe that's because you're very genius. ;) And not everybody is on your level? :)

Lol. Good attempt. :P

But am not mistake-proof.  ;)

It's okay... I'll wait, hopefully they notice it.

Nevertheless, thank you. :)
Title: Re: Can anyone attempt this please? (Statistics P6)
Post by: Arthur Bon Zavi on March 23, 2011, 12:39:24 pm
Did you do the normal distribution part ?
Title: Re: Can anyone attempt this please? (Statistics P6)
Post by: Alpha on March 23, 2011, 12:42:06 pm
Did you do the normal distribution part ?

Yes, I did everything. But I think you should subtract the prob you get from 1.

"probability that it runs out of fuel before it has travelled 367 km"

Using the normal dist. you'll get the probability that it can travel 376 km on 20 litres of fuel, nah?
Title: Re: Can anyone attempt this please? (Statistics P6)
Post by: Arthur Bon Zavi on March 23, 2011, 12:50:59 pm
Yes, I did everything. But I think you should subtract the prob you get from 1.

"probability that it runs out of fuel before it has travelled 367 km"

Using the normal dist. you'll get the probability that it can travel 376 km on 20 litres of fuel, nah?

Nah.

If your car has an average of 20 and you want it to run 80, it is just not possible. Think logically. It was not stated less than 367 km, it WAS before 367 km.
Title: Re: Can anyone attempt this please? (Statistics P6)
Post by: Alpha on March 23, 2011, 03:02:37 pm
Nah.

If your car has an average of 20 and you want it to run 80, it is just not possible. Think logically. It was not stated less than 367 km, it WAS before 367 km.

Yes, less than 367. Had already made provisions.
I was thinking about it while going to tuitions.  ::)
My teacher told me "Alphaaaa, I'll kill you!"  :P

Thank you Fidato. :)

+rep  :)
Title: Re: Can anyone attempt this please? (Statistics P6)
Post by: Arthur Bon Zavi on March 24, 2011, 11:25:39 am
Yes, less than 367. Had already made provisions.
I was thinking about it while going to tuitions.  ::)
My teacher told me "Alphaaaa, I'll kill you!"  :P

Thank you Fidato. :)

+rep  :)

Anytime.

By the way, do you go to tutions ?
Title: Re: Can anyone attempt this please? (Statistics P6)
Post by: Alpha on March 24, 2011, 11:57:21 am
Anytime.

By the way, do you go to tutions ?

Yes, I do.
Title: Re: Can anyone attempt this please? (Statistics P6)
Post by: Arthur Bon Zavi on March 24, 2011, 11:59:06 am
Yes, I do.

Only maths ?
Title: Re: Can anyone attempt this please? (Statistics P6)
Post by: Alpha on March 24, 2011, 12:00:24 pm
Only maths ?

All my subjects actually... I don't know how it is in India, but here, it's a common thing. Very common.
Title: Re: Can anyone attempt this please? (Statistics P6)
Post by: Arthur Bon Zavi on March 24, 2011, 12:04:46 pm
All my subjects actually... I don't know how it is in India, but here, it's a common thing. Very common.

In India, it's common in common to get to tutions. When it is the time, mothers tell, GET OUTTA HERE. Don't you see it's tution time. ::)

But, I do not take tutions.
Title: Re: Can anyone attempt this please? (Statistics P6)
Post by: Alpha on March 24, 2011, 12:10:21 pm
In India, it's common in common to get to tutions. When it is the time, mothers tell, GET OUTTA HERE. Don't you see it's tution time. ::)

But, I do not take tutions.

I congratulate you for this sound decision.
Title: Re: Can anyone attempt this please? (Statistics P6)
Post by: Arthur Bon Zavi on March 24, 2011, 12:11:26 pm
I congratulate you for this sound decision.

What ? No, it's not that I do not go for tutions, it's that I do not take tutions. Only school. :P
Title: Re: Can anyone attempt this please? (Statistics P6)
Post by: Alpha on March 24, 2011, 12:30:33 pm
What ? No, it's not that I do not go for tutions, it's that I do not take tutions. Only school. :P

I understood that.  :P