The normal distribution: OCR MEI A‑Level Maths questions
OCR MEI A-Level Maths past-paper questions on 4.2 The normal distribution, 2018–2025, with mark schemes and examiner’s reports where available. Add MadAsMaths questions to your practice, or browse them separately by topic and difficulty.
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- June 2024, Paper 2, Q15 (17 marks): Bottles of Fizzipop nominally contain 330 ml of drink. A consumer affairs researcher collects a random sample of 55 bottles of Fizzipop and records the volume o
- June 2023, Paper 2, Q18 (11 marks): Riley is investigating the daily water consumption, in litres, of his household. He records the amount used for a random sample of 120 days from the previous tw
- June 2022, Paper 2, Q6 (2 marks): 6 X is a continuous random variable such that X N ( , n v . ) + On the sketch of this Normal distribution in the Printed Answer Booklet, shade the area bounded
- June 2022, Paper 2, Q9 (9 marks): At the beginning of the academic year, all the pupils in year 12 at a college take part in an assessment. Summary statistics for the marks obtained by the 2021
- November 2021, Paper 2, Q8 (4 marks): The Normal variable X is transformed to the Normal variable Y. The transformation is y a bx , where a and b are positive constants. = + You are given that X N 4
- November 2020, Paper 2, Q8 (12 marks): Rosella is carrying out an investigation into the age at which adults retire from work in the city where she lives. She collects a sample of size 50, ensuring t
- June 2019, Paper 2, Q10 (16 marks): Club 65–80 Holidays fly jets between Liverpool and Magaluf. Over a long period of time records show that half of the flights from Liverpool to Magaluf take less
- June 2019, Paper 2, Q15 (6 marks): You must show detailed reasoning in this question. The screenshot in Fig. 15 shows the probability distribution for the continuous random variable X, 2 where X
- June 2018, Paper 2, Q10 (8 marks): The screenshot in Fig. 10 shows the probability distribution for the continuous random variable X, where ^ h. 2 X N , + n v Fig. 10 The area of each of the unsh
- June 2018, Paper 2, Q13 (10 marks): Each weekday Keira drives to work with her son Kaito. She always sets off at 8.00 a.m. She models her ^ h. journey time, x minutes, by the distribution X N 15 4
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