Calculate the probability of a refund will be paid


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Q: A railway company operates a number of different services. One of these connects two cities and the journey time is assumed to be normally distributed with a mean of 125 minutes and a standard deviation of 5 minutes.

The company operates a scheme where it refunds 25% of the fare paid if the journey takes longer than 131 minutes.

i) Show that the probability that a refund will be paid on a particular journey is 0.1151.

ii) The company operates 12 services a day. Calculate the probability that a refund will be paid on exactly two journeys during a particular day assuming that the journey time of each service is independent of the others

iii) Explain why the assumption in part ii) may not hold true.

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