TopMyGrade

Home·Daily Problem

Daily Problem·Saturday, 6 August 2022Back to today

Manufacturing defect rate

GCSE · Mathematics · OCR · P3 — Relative expected frequencies vs theoretical probability; 0–1 scale

Question

OCR J560/03 — Foundation (calculator)

A factory tests 800 light bulbs. 24 are faulty.

(a) Estimate the probability that a randomly selected bulb is faulty. [1] (b) The factory produces 50 000 bulbs per day. Estimate how many are faulty. [2] (c) The factory wants to improve testing — they retest a sample of 50 bulbs and find 1 faulty. State whether this changes your earlier estimate, and why. [2]

5 marks · take your time before peeking.

Sign up to try the next 30 problems

Save your streak, mark answers against the spec, and build a daily revision habit. Free during public beta — no card, no auto-renew.

Generated by TopMyGrade AI · cross-check official sources before relying on the mark-scheme phrasing.