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1 The table shows the number of items sold to each of 60 customers in a shop.
Number of items Frequency
sold
0 3
1 6
2 12
3 8
4 14
5 10
6 3
7 4
(a) Find the range.
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(b) Calculate the mean.
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(c) Find the probability that a customer picked at random buys more than 4 items.
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[Total: 6]
V E N N D I A G R A M
The diagram shows 11 cards.
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(a) One of these cards is chosen at random.
Write down the probability that the letter on the card is not A.
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(b) A card is chosen at random from these 11 cards and then replaced.
A second card is then chosen at random.
Find the probability that exactly one card has the letter N.
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[Total: 4]
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E M
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50 students are asked if they like English (E) and if they like mathematics (M).
3 say they do not like English and do not like mathematics.
33 say they like English.
42 say they like mathematics.
(a) Complete the Venn diagram. [2]
(b) A student is chosen at random.
Find the probability that this student likes English and likes mathematics.
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(c) Two students are chosen at random.
Find the probability that they both like mathematics.
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(d) Two students who like English are chosen at random.
Find the probability that they both also like mathematics.
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[Total: 7]
4 The time, t minutes, taken by each of 80 people to travel to work is recorded.
The table shows information about these times.
Time
(t minutes)
Frequency 3 7 18 28 24
(a) One of these 80 people is chosen at random.
Find the probability that this person took longer than 10 minutes to travel to work.
Give your answer as a fraction in its simplest form.
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(b) Two people are chosen at random from those taking 20 minutes or less to travel to work.
Calculate the probability that one of these people took 5 minutes or less and the other took more than
5 minutes.
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[Total: 5]
5 The Venn diagram shows the number of students in a group of 50 students who wear glasses (G), who wear
trainers (T) and who have a mobile phone (M).
G
T
0 2 3
2
19 14
1
M 9
(a) Use set notation to describe the region that contains only one student.
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(b) Find .
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(c) One student is picked at random from the 50 students.
Find the probability that this student wears trainers but does not wear glasses.
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(d) Two students are picked at random from those wearing trainers.
Find the probability that both students have mobile phones.
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[Total: 6]
Bag A Bag B
Bag A contains 2 black marbles and 3 white marbles.
Bag B contains 5 black marbles and 8 white marbles.
(a) Write down the probability that a marble picked at random from bag A is black.
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(b) Toby says,
‘You are more likely to pick a black marble at random from bag B than from bag A
because bag B has more black marbles.’
Is Toby correct?
Give a reason for your answer.
.............................. because ....................................................................................................... [2]
(c) Toby adds some marbles to bag B.
The probability of picking a black marble at random from either bag is now the same.
Work out the smallest number of black marbles and white marbles he adds to bag B.
Black ...................................................
White ................................................... [2]
[Total: 5]
7 The diagram shows two sets of cards.
Set A 1 1 2 2 2
Set B 0 1 1 1 2
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(a) Jojo chooses two cards at random from Set A without replacement.
Find the probability that the two cards have the same number.
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(b) Jojo replaces the two cards.
Kylie then chooses one card at random from Set A and one card at random from Set B.
Find the probability that the two cards have the same number.
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(c) Who is the most likely to choose two cards that have the same number?
Show all your working.
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[Total: 7]
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8 Paul and Sammy take part in a race.
The probability that Paul wins the race is .
The probability that Sammy wins the race is 26%.
Who is more likely to win the race?
Give a reason for your answer.
Answer .........................................because ............................................................................................ [2]
[Total: 2]
9 A bag contains different coloured counters.
Sasha takes a counter at random, records its colour, and replaces it.
She does this 90 times and records her results in the pie chart below.
Green
Red
136°
148°
Blue
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(a) Write down the relative frequency of Sasha choosing a red counter.
Answer(a) ................................................... [1]
(b) Work out the number of times a green counter is chosen.
Answer(b) ................................................... [3]
[Total: 4]
10 The diagram shows a fair 8-sided spinner.
The numbers on the spinner are 3, 4, 4, 7, 7, 7, 8 and 9.
(a) The spinner is spun once.
Write down the probability that the spinner lands on
(i) the number 7,
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(ii) a number greater than 2.
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(b) The spinner is spun 160 times.
Work out the expected number of times the spinner lands on the number 7.
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[Total: 3]
11 Mario tests new cars.
The probability that a car is faulty is 0.04 .
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(a) Find the probability that a car is not faulty.
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(b) In one week Mario tests 850 cars.
Find the number of cars that are expected to be faulty.
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[Total: 3]
12 A bag contains brown balls, white balls, black balls and purple balls only.
A ball is taken from this bag at random.
Colour Brown White Black Purple
Probability 0.46 0.22 0.14
(a) Complete the table.
[2]
(b) Which colour is the most likely to be taken?
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(c) There are 50 balls in this bag.
Work out the number of black balls.
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[Total: 4]
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On any Saturday, the probability that Arun plays football is .
On any Saturday, the probability that Bob plays football is .
(a) (i) Complete the tree diagram.
[2]
(ii) Calculate the probability that, one Saturday, Arun and Bob both play football.
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(iii) Calculate the probability that, one Saturday, either Arun plays football or Bob plays football,
but not both.
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(b) Calculate the probability that Bob plays football for 2 of the next 3 Saturdays.
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(c) When Arun plays football, the probability that he scores the winning goal is .
Calculate the probability that Arun scores the winning goal one Saturday.
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[Total: 12]
