A botanical study conducted in a vast alpine meadow finds that the probability of a specific mountain flower species exhibiting a rare white-petalled phenotype is 0.06.
Determine the probability that in a random sample of 150 such flowers, there are at least 12 that exhibit the white-petalled phenotype.
Find the probability that in a random sample of 25 flowers, there are exactly 2 with the white-petalled phenotype.
Using a suitable approximation, find the probability that in a large-scale survey of 7500 flowers, there are at least 475 with the white-petalled phenotype.
390 exam-style questions on OCR A Level Maths 2.4 Statistical Distributions, covering 2.4.1 Discrete probability distributions, 2.4.2 Binomial distribution as a model, 2.4.3 Calculating binomial probabilities, 2.4.4 Mean and variance of the binomial (A-level only), 2.4.5 Normal distribution as a model (A-level only), 2.4.6 Probabilities using the normal distribution (A-level only), 2.4.7 Links to histograms, mean and standard deviation (A-level only), and 2.4.8 Selecting an appropriate distribution (A-level only). Each one has a worked solution and a mark scheme showing where the marks go.