bac-s-maths 2013 Q3
5 marks
Normal Distribution Combined with Total Probability or Bayes' Theorem
A factory manufactures spherical balls whose diameter is expressed in millimetres. A ball is said to be out of specification when its diameter is less than 9 mm or greater than 11 mm.
Part A1. Let $X$ be the random variable that associates to each ball chosen at random from production its diameter expressed in mm.
It is assumed that the random variable $X$ follows the normal distribution with mean 10 and standard deviation 0.4.
Show that an approximate value to 0.0001 of the probability that a ball is out of specification is 0.0124. You may use the table of values given in the appendix.
2. A production control is put in place such that 98\% of out-of-specification balls are rejected and 99\% of correct balls are kept.
A ball is chosen at random from production. Let $N$ denote the event: ``the chosen ball is within specification'', and $A$ the event: ``the chosen ball is accepted after the control''.
a. Construct a weighted tree diagram that incorporates the data from the problem statement.
b. Calculate the probability of event $A$.
c. What is the probability that an accepted ball is out of specification?
Part BThis production control proving too costly for the company, it is abandoned: henceforth, all balls produced are kept, and they are packaged in bags of 100 balls.
It is considered that the probability that a ball is out of specification is 0.0124.
It will be assumed that taking a bag of 100 balls at random is equivalent to performing a sampling with replacement of 100 balls from the set of manufactured balls.
Let $Y$ be the random variable that associates to every bag of 100 balls the number of out-of-specification balls in that bag.
1. What is the distribution followed by the random variable $Y$?
2. What are the mean and standard deviation of the random variable $Y$?
3. What is the probability that a bag of 100 balls contains exactly two out-of-specification balls?
4. What is the probability that a bag of 100 balls contains at most one out-of-specification ball?