The mass of a high-precision turbine blade, M M\,M grams, is modeled by a normal distribution with a mean of 450.5 g and a standard deviation of 1.8 g. A quality control engineer selects a random sample of 20 blades from a large production batch. Determine the probability that the mean mass of these 20 blades, Mˉ\bar{M}Mˉ, is greater than 451.2 g.
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.