A hotel lift has a safety limit of 800kg. The mean mass of an adult man is 80kg with a standard deviation of 15kg. The probability that 9 randomly selected hotel guests exceed the safety limit is calculated. It is then noted that there is now a group of sumo wrestlers staying at the hotel, and their large masses would affect the original calculations since the mean mass and standard deviation of men would change with them included.
A hotel lift has a safety limit of 800kg. The mean mass of an adult man is 80kg with a standard deviation of 15kg. The probability that 9 randomly selected hotel guests exceed the safety limit is calculated. It is then noted that there is now a group of sumo wrestlers staying at the hotel, and their large masses would affect the original calculations since the mean mass and standard deviation of men would change with them included.
A hotel lift has a safety limit of 800kg. The mean mass of an adult man is 80kg with a standard deviation of 15kg. The probability that 9 randomly selected hotel guests exceed the safety limit is calculated. It is then noted that there is now a group of sumo wrestlers staying at the hotel, and their large masses would affect the original calculations since the mean mass and standard deviation of men would change with them included.
2011 Preliminary Examinations H2 Mathematics Paper 2
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(iv) There is a good chance that at least 1 out of 9 hotel guests entering the lift is a sumo wrestler, and thus the probability of exceeding the safety limit is greater than (iii).
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The mean and standard deviation for the mass of a man in the hotel would have changed when a large number of sumo wrestlers checked in. Let X kg and Y kg be the masses of a man and a child respectively. 4