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7. In a school there are 148 students in Years 12 and 13 studying Science, Humanities or Arts
subjects. Of these students, 89 wear glasses and the others do not. There are 30 Science
students of whom 18 wear glasses. The corresponding figures for the Humanities students
are 68 and 44 respectively.
(b) does not wear glasses, given that the student is studying Arts subjects.
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Amongst the Science students, 80% are right-handed. Corresponding percentages for
Humanities and Arts students are 75% and 70% respectively.
(d) Given that this student is right-handed, find the probability that the student is
studying Science subjects.
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6. A group of 100 people produced the following information relating to three attributes.
The attributes were wearing glasses, being left handed and having dark hair.
Glasses were worn by 36 people, 28 were left handed and 36 had dark hair. There were
17 who wore glasses and were left handed, 19 who wore glasses and had dark hair and 15
who were left handed and had dark hair. Only 10 people wore glasses, were left handed
and had dark hair.
(b) wore glasses but was not left handed and did not have dark hair,
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(c) did not wear glasses, was not left handed and did not have dark hair,
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(e) wore glasses given that they were left handed and had dark hair.
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2. In a factory, machines A, B and C are all producing metal rods of the same length.
Machine A produces 35% of the rods, machine B produces 25% and the rest are produced
by machine C. Of their production of rods, machines A, B and C produce 3%, 6% and 5%
defective rods respectively.
(ii) is defective.
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(c) Given that a randomly selected rod is defective, find the probability that it was
produced by machine C.
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4. A survey of the reading habits of some students revealed that, on a regular basis, 25% read
quality newspapers, 45% read tabloid newspapers and 40% do not read newspapers at all.
(a) Find the proportion of students who read both quality and tabloid newspapers.
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(b) In the space on page 13 draw a Venn diagram to represent this information.
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A student is selected at random. Given that this student reads newspapers on a regular
basis,
(c) find the probability that this student only reads quality newspapers.
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5. The following shows the results of a wine tasting survey of 100 people.
96 like wine A,
93 like wine B,
96 like wine C,
92 like A and B,
91 like B and C,
93 like A and C,
90 like all three wines.
Find the probability that a randomly selected person from the survey likes
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7. Tetrahedral dice have four faces. Two fair tetrahedral dice, one red and one blue, have
faces numbered 0, 1, 2, and 3 respectively. The dice are rolled and the numbers face down
on the two dice are recorded. The random variable R is the score on the red die and the
random variable B is the score on the blue die.
(b) Complete the diagram below to represent the sample space that shows all the possible
values of T.
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R 0 1 2 3
(c) The table below represents the probability distribution of the random variable T.
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(d) E(T),
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(e) Var(T).
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1. A disease is known to be present in 2% of a population. A test is developed to help
determine whether or not someone has the disease.
Given that a person has the disease, the test is positive with probability 0.95
Given that a person does not have the disease, the test is positive with probability 0.03
A person is selected at random from the population and tested for this disease.
A doctor randomly selects a person from the population and tests him for the disease.
Given that the test is positive,
(c) find the probability that he does not have the disease.
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2. A group of office workers were questioned for a health magazine and were found to
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Find the probability that a randomly selected member of the group
(b) does not always eat breakfast and does not take regular exercise.
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(c) Determine, giving your reason, whether or not always eating breakfast and taking
regular exercise are statistically independent.
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2. On a randomly chosen day the probability that Bill travels to school by car, by bicycle
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or on foot is , and respectively. The probability of being late when using these
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methods of travel is , and respectively.
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(a) Draw a tree diagram to represent this information.
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(c) Given that Bill is late, find the probability that he did not travel on foot.
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7. (a) Given that P(A) = a and P(B) = b express P(A ∪ B) in terms of a and b when
(d) P(R).
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1. A jar contains 2 red, 1 blue and 1 green bead. Two beads are drawn at random from the
jar without replacement.
(a) In the space below, draw a tree diagram to illustrate all the possible outcomes and
associated probabilities. State your probabilities clearly.
(3)
(b) Find the probability that a blue bead and a green bead are drawn from the jar.
(2)
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4. There are 180 students at a college following a general course in computing. Students on
this course can choose to take up to three extra options.
(a) In the space below, draw a Venn diagram to represent this information.
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Students who want to become technicians take systems support and networking. Given
that a randomly chosen student wants to become a technician,
(d) find the probability that this student takes all three extra options.
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2. An experiment consists of selecting a ball from a bag and spinning a coin. The bag
contains 5 red balls and 7 blue balls. A ball is selected at random from the bag, its colour
is noted and then the ball is returned to the bag.
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probabilities.
Ball Coin
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Given that Tom selected a ball at random and obtained a head when he spun the
appropriate coin,
(d) Find the probability that the colour of the ball Shivani selects is the same as the colour
of the ball Tom selects.
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4. The Venn diagram in Figure 1 shows the number of students in a class who read any of 3
popular magazines A, B and C.
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(b) Find the probability that the student reads A or B (or both).
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(c) Write down the probability that the student reads both A and C.
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(e) Determine whether or not reading magazine B and reading magazine C are statistically
independent.
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7. The bag P contains 6 balls of which 3 are red and 3 are yellow.
The bag Q contains 7 balls of which 4 are red and 3 are yellow.
A ball is drawn at random from bag P and placed in bag Q. A second ball is drawn at
random from bag P and placed in bag Q.
A third ball is then drawn at random from the 9 balls in bag Q.
The event A occurs when the 2 balls drawn from bag P are of the same colour.
The event B occurs when the ball drawn from bag Q is red.
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6. Jake and Kamil are sometimes late for school.
The events J and K are defined as follows
The teacher suspects that Jake being late for school and Kamil being late for school are
linked in some way.
(e) Comment on the teacher’s suspicion in the light of your calculation in (d).
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8. A spinner is designed so that the score S is given by the following probability distribution.
s 0 1 2 4 5
P(S = s) p 0.25 0.25 0.20 0.20
Tom and Jess play a game with this spinner. The spinner is spun repeatedly and S counters
are awarded on the outcome of each spin. If S is even then Tom receives the counters and
if S is odd then Jess receives them. The first player to collect 10 or more counters is the
winner.
(f) Find the probability that Tom wins after exactly 3 spins.
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(g) Find the probability that Jess wins after exactly 3 spins.
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1. The histogram in Figure 1 shows the time, to the nearest minute, that a random sample of
100 motorists were delayed by roadworks on a stretch of motorway.
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(b) Estimate the number of motorists who were delayed between 8.5 and 13.5 minutes by
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2. (a) State in words the relationship between two events R and S when P( R ∩ S ) = 0
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(d) P(%ƍ| A)
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6. The following shows the results of a survey on the types of exercise taken by a group of
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65 run
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60 cycle
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30 swim and cycle
35 run and cycle
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(e) find the probability that he swims but does not cycle.
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B bicycle
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(a) Write down 2 of these events that are mutually exclusive. Give a reason for your answer.
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(e) Given that this person travels to work by bicycle, find the probability that they will
also take the train.
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7. A manufacturer carried out a survey of the defects in their soft toys. It is found that the
probability of a toy having poor stitching is 0.03 and that a toy with poor stitching has a
probability of 0.7 of splitting open. A toy without poor stitching has a probability of 0.02
of splitting open.
(b) Find the probability that a randomly chosen soft toy has exactly one of the two
defects, poor stitching or splitting open.
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The manufacturer also finds that soft toys can become faded with probability 0.05 and
that this defect is independent of poor stitching or splitting open. A soft toy is chosen at
random.
(c) Find the probability that the soft toy has none of these 3 defects.
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(d) Find the probability that the soft toy has exactly one of these 3 defects.
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7. Given that
P(A) = 0.35 , P(B) = 0.45 and P(A !"B#"$"%&'(
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The events A and C are mutually exclusive and the events B and C are independent.
(d) Draw a Venn diagram to illustrate the events A, B and C and the probabilities for each
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The Venn diagram in Figure 1 shows three events A, B and C and the probabilities
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3. In a company the 200 employees are classified as full-time workers, part-time workers or
contractors.
The table below shows the number of employees in each category and whether they walk
to work or use some form of transport.
Walk Transport
Full-time worker 2 8
Part-time worker 35 75
Contractor 30 50
The events F, H and C are that an employee is a full-time worker, part-time worker or
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(e) find the probability that a randomly selected employee uses the bus to travel to work.
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