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1 The diagram shows two sets of cards.

Set A 1 1 2 2 2

Set B 0 1 1 1 2

(a) Jojo chooses two cards at random from Set A without replacement.

Find the probability that the two cards have the same number.

................................................... [3]

(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.

................................................... [3]

(c) Who is the most likely to choose two cards that have the same number?
Show all your working.

................................................... [1]

[Total: 7]
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2 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]

3 A bag contains 3 green balls, 4 red balls and 1 blue ball only.
Matt takes a ball from the bag at random.

Some probabilities are marked on the probability scale.

Write down the letter that shows the probability that

(a) Matt takes a red ball,

................................................... [1]

(b) Matt does not take a blue ball.

................................................... [1]

[Total: 2]

4 Tanya plants some seeds.

The probability that a seed will produce flowers is 0.8 .
When a seed produces flowers, the probability that the flowers are red is 0.6 and the probability that the
flowers are yellow is 0.3 .
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(a) Tanya has a seed that produces flowers.

Find the probability that the flowers are not red and not yellow.

................................................... [1]

(b) (i) Complete the tree diagram.

[2]

(ii) Find the probability that a seed chosen at random produces red flowers.

................................................... [2]

(iii) Tanya chooses a seed at random.

Find the probability that this seed does not produce red flowers and does not produce yellow
flowers.

................................................... [3]
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(c) Two of the seeds are chosen at random.

Find the probability that one produces flowers and one does not produce flowers.

................................................... [3]

[Total: 11]

5 A biased 4-sided dice is rolled.

The possible scores are 1, 2, 3 or 4.
The probability of rolling a 1, 3 or 4 is shown in the table.

Score 1 2 3 4

Probability 0.15 0.3 0.35

Complete the table. [2]

[Total: 2]

6 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,

................................................... [1]
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(ii) a number greater than 2.

................................................... [1]

(b) The spinner is spun 160 times.

Work out the expected number of times the spinner lands on the number 7.

................................................... [1]

[Total: 3]

7 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.

................................................... [1]

(b) Find .

................................................... [1]

(c) One student is picked at random from the 50 students.

Find the probability that this student wears trainers but does not wear glasses.

................................................... [1]
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(d) Two students are picked at random from those wearing trainers.

Find the probability that both students have mobile phones.

................................................... [3]

[Total: 6]

8 The speed, v km/h, of each of 200 cars passing a building is measured.

The table shows the results.

Speed (v km/h)

Frequency 16 34 62 58 26 4

(a) Calculate an estimate of the mean.

................................................... km/h [4]

(b) (i) Use the frequency table to complete the cumulative frequency table.

Speed (v km/h)

Cumulative frequency 16 50 196 200

[1]
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(ii) On the grid, draw a cumulative frequency diagram.

[3]

(iii) Use your diagram to find an estimate of

A the upper quartile,

................................................... km/h [1]

B the number of cars with a speed greater than 35 km/h.

................................................... [2]

(c) Two of the 200 cars are chosen at random.

Find the probability that they both have a speed greater than 50 km/h.

................................................... [2]

[Total: 13]
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9 A group of 200 people were asked which city they would like to visit next.
The table shows the results.

City London Paris New York Tokyo

Number of people 50 48 56 46

(a) A person from the group is chosen at random.

Write down the probability that this person would like to visit either Paris or Tokyo next.

................................................... [2]

(b) Two people are chosen at random from the group of 200.

Find the probability that one person would like to visit London next and the other person would like to
visit New York next.
Give your answer as a percentage.

................................................... % [3]

[Total: 5]

10 The Venn diagram below shows information about the number of gardeners who grow melons (M), potatoes
(P) and carrots (C).
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(a) A gardener is chosen at random from the gardeners who grow melons.

Find the probability that this gardener does not grow carrots.

................................................... [2]

(b) Find .

................................................... [1]

[Total: 3]

11 (a) The table shows the amount of time, T minutes, 120 people each spend in a supermarket one Saturday.

Time (T minutes) Number of people

16

18

22

40

21

3
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(i) Use the mid-points of the intervals to calculate an estimate of the mean.

................................................... min [4]

(ii) Complete this histogram to show the information in the table.

[4]
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(b) This histogram shows the amount of time, T minutes, 120 people each spend in the supermarket one
Wednesday.

Make a comment comparing the distributions of the times for the two days.

..........................................................................................................................................................

.......................................................................................................................................................... [1]

[Total: 9]

12 (a) Kyung records the number of people in each of 24 cars on Wednesday.

His results are shown below.

1 3 6 1 2 2 4 5
3 4 1 5 3 2 4 1
1 1 2 4 4 1 2 1
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(i) Complete the frequency table.

You may use the tally column to help you.

Number in a car Tally Frequency

[2]

(ii) Write down the mode.

................................................... [1]

(iii) Work out the range.

................................................... [1]

(iv) Work out the median.

................................................... [1]

(v) Calculate the mean.

................................................... [3]

(vi) One of these cars is chosen at random.

Find the probability that the number of people in this car is 4.

................................................... [1]
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(b) Kyung also records the number of people in each of 24 cars on Saturday.
The table shows the results.

Number in a car 1 2 3 4 5 6

Frequency 1 2 5 13 2 1

On the grid, complete the bar chart to show these results.

[2]

(c) Write down one comparison between the frequency tables in part(a)(i) and part(b).

..........................................................................................................................................................

.......................................................................................................................................................... [1]

[Total: 12]

13 The 262 students at a college each study one of the languages shown in the table.

French German Spanish Italian Japanese Total

Boys 27 48 19 123
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Girls 32 54 12

Total 53 30 262

(a) Complete the table. [3]

(b) Find the probability that

(i) a girl, chosen at random, studies Spanish,

................................................... [1]

(ii) a boy, chosen at random, studies French or Italian,

................................................... [1]

(iii) a student, chosen at random, does not study German.

................................................... [1]

[Total: 6]

14 The table shows information about the mass, m grams, of each of 120 letters.

Mass (m grams)

Frequency 43 31 25 21
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(a) Calculate an estimate of the mean mass.

................................................... g [4]

(b) Iraj draws a histogram to show this information.

He makes the height of the first bar 17.2 cm.

Calculate the height of each of the remaining bars.

height of bar for ................................................... cm

height of bar for ................................................... cm

height of bar for ................................................... cm [3]

(c) Complete the cumulative frequency table.

Mass (m grams)

Cumulative
frequency

[2]
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(d) Draw a cumulative frequency diagram.

120

100

80

Cumulative
frequency 60

40

20

0 m
0 100 200 300 400 500
Mass (g)
[3]

(e) Use the cumulative frequency diagram to find an estimate for

(i) the median,

................................................... g [1]

(ii) the upper quartile,

................................................... g [1]

(iii) the 40th percentile,

................................................... g [2]

(iv) the number of letters with a mass m where .

................................................... [2]

[Total: 18]
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15 Some apples are weighed and the mass, m grams, of each apple is recorded.
The table shows the results.

Mass (m grams)

Frequency 50 x 44 51

The histogram shows some of the information from the table.

Frequency
density 4

0 m
100 110 120 130 140
Mass (grams)

(a) Work out the value of x.

x = ................................................... [1]

(b) Complete the histogram.

[2]

[Total: 3]
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16 The speed, v km/h, of each of 200 cars passing a building is measured.

The table shows the results.

Speed (v km/h)

Frequency 50 120 30

On the grid, draw a histogram to show the information in this table.

[3]

[Total: 3]
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17 The table shows the number of people in different age groups at a cinema.

Age (y years)

Number of people 35 32 44 12

Dexter draws a histogram to show this information.

The height of the bar he draws for the group is 7 cm.

Calculate the height of each of the remaining bars.

................................................... cm

................................................... cm

................................................... cm [3]

[Total: 3]

18 Some students were asked how many books they each had in their school bags.
The table shows some of this information.

Number of books 5 6 7 8 9 10

Frequency 4 5 x 11 7 5

The mean number of books is 7.6 .

Calculate the value of x.

x = ................................................... [3]
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[Total: 3]

19 The frequency table shows information about the number of books read by some students in a reading
marathon.

Number of
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
books read

Frequency 2 2 16 10 9 4 x 2

(a) The mean number of books read is 4.28 .

Find the value of x.

x = ................................................... [3]

(b) Write down the mode.

................................................... [1]

(c) Write down the median.

................................................... [1]

[Total: 5]
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20 The table shows information about the height, h cm, of each of 50 plants.

Height (h cm)

Frequency 4 9 20 15 2

Calculate an estimate of the mean.

................................................... cm [4]

[Total: 4]

21 20 students each record the mass, p grams, of their pencil case.

The table below shows the results.

Mass
(p grams)
Frequency 2 5 4 6 3

(a) Calculate an estimate of the mean mass.

................................................... g [4]
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(b) Use the frequency table above to complete the cumulative frequency table.

Mass
(p grams)
Cumulative
20
frequency

[2]

(c) A student is chosen at random.

Find the probability that this student has a pencil case with a mass greater than 150 g.

................................................... [1]

[Total: 7]

22 Here is some information about the masses of potatoes in a sack:

• The largest potato has a mass of 174 g.

• The range is 69 g.
• The median is 148 g.
• The lower quartile is 121 g.
• The interquartile range is 38 g.

On the grid below, draw a box-and-whisker plot to show this information.

[4]

[Total: 4]

23 100 students were each asked how much money, $m, they spent in one week.
The frequency table shows the results.
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Amount ($m)

Frequency 16 38 30 9 7

(a) Complete the cumulative frequency table below.

Amount ($m)

Cumulative
16 100
frequency

[2]

(b) On the grid, draw the cumulative frequency diagram.

[3]

(c) Use your cumulative frequency diagram to find an estimate for

(i) the median,

$ ................................................... [1]
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(ii) the interquartile range,

$ ................................................... [2]

(iii) the number of students who spent more than $25.

................................................... [2]

[Total: 10]

24 A factory recycles metal.

The mass, x tonnes, of metal is measured each day for a number of days.
The cumulative frequency diagram shows the results.

(a) For how many days was the mass measured?

................................................... [1]

(b) Find an estimate of the median.

................................................... tonnes [1]

(c) Find an estimate of the upper quartile.

................................................... tonnes [1]

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(d) Find an estimate of the interquartile range.

................................................... tonnes [1]

(e) Find an estimate of the number of days when the mass was greater than 20 tonnes.

................................................... [2]

[Total: 6]

25 Henrik draws this scatter diagram.

Put a ring around the one correct statement about this scatter diagram.

It is not possible to tell if

It shows It shows negative It shows positive
there is correlation as there
no correlation. correlation. correlation.
are not enough points.

[1]

[Total: 1]

26 As the temperature increases, people eat more ice cream.

What type of correlation does this statement describe?

................................................... [1]

[Total: 1]

27 The number of bowls of hot soup sold decreases when the temperature rises.

What type of correlation does this statement describe?

................................................... [1]

[Total: 1]
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28 Belle records the height, in centimetres, and the mass, in kilograms, of some goats.
Some of her results are shown in the scatter diagram.

(a) The table shows four more results.

Height (cm) 23 30 36 38

Mass (kg) 31.2 33.5 34.6 34.8

Plot these points on the scatter diagram. [2]

(b) What type of correlation is shown in this scatter diagram?

................................................... [1]

(c) (i) Draw a line of best fit on the scatter diagram. [1]
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(ii) Use your line of best fit to estimate the height of a goat with mass 32.5 kg.

................................................... cm [1]

(d) Work out the percentage of the 12 goats that have a height between 26 cm and 35 cm.

................................................... % [3]

[Total: 8]