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Probabilities HL PDF

This document contains 6 probability questions involving choosing students, arranging letters, selecting PIN numbers, winning the lottery, and arranging pool balls. The questions cover topics like finding the probability of all or some options being female, the number of arrangements of letters, the chance of no repeated digits in a PIN, the likelihood of matching all lottery numbers, and the probability of specific ball arrangements.

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Probabilities HL PDF

This document contains 6 probability questions involving choosing students, arranging letters, selecting PIN numbers, winning the lottery, and arranging pool balls. The questions cover topics like finding the probability of all or some options being female, the number of arrangements of letters, the chance of no repeated digits in a PIN, the likelihood of matching all lottery numbers, and the probability of specific ball arrangements.

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1. In a group of 18 students, eight are females.

What is the probability of choosing five students from


the group of 18 such that:
(a) they are all female;
(b) there are three girls and two boys.

2. Using all six letters of the word THEORY, how many different arrangements of the letters can be
made?

3. Using all eleven letters of the word INSPIRATION

(a) how many different arrangements of the letters can be made?

(b) how many of these arrangements begin and end with the letter N?

4. A 4 digit PIN is selected. What is the probability that there are no repeated digits?

5. In a certain state's lottery, 48 balls numbered 1 through 48 are placed in a machine and six of them
are drawn at random. If the six numbers drawn match the numbers that a player had chosen, the
player wins $1,000,000. In this lottery, the order the numbers are drawn in doesn't matter.
Compute the probability that you win the million-dollar prize if you purchase a single lottery ticket.

6. Use the figure below. Assume that the balls are aligned at random.

a.What is the probability that in a row of 8 pool balls, the solid 2 and striped 11 would be first and second
from the left?

b. hat is the probability that if the 8 pool balls were mixed up at random, they would end up in the order
shown?

c. What is the probability that in a row of seven balls, with three 8-balls, three 9-balls, and one 6-ball, the
three 8-balls would be to the left of the 6-ball and the three 9-balls would be on the right?

d.If the eight original balls were randomly rearranged and formed a circle, what is the probability that the
6-ball is next to the 7-ball?

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