Exercise April 4th, 2024

1. In a small town there are a number of sport clubs. The clubs have 750 members in total. The table below
shows the types of sports club and the number of members each has.

A sports club members is chosen at random from the town. Calculate the probability that the member is:
a. A man

b. A girl

c. A woman who does athletics

d. A boy who plays football

e. Not a boy who plays football

f. Not a golf player

g. A male who plays hockey

2. 3 red, 10 white, 5 blue, and 2 green counters are put in a bag. If one is picked at random, calculate the
 probability that it is:
a. A green counter

b. A blue counter

If the first counter taken out is green and it is not put back into the bag. Calculate the probability that the
second counter picked is:
a. A green counter

b. A red counter

3. In a class, data is collected about whether each student is right-handed or left-handed. The results are
shown below.

a. How many students are in the class?

b. A student is chosen at random. Calculate the probability that the student is:
i. A girls

ii. Left-handed

iii. A right-handed boy

iv. Not a right-handed boy

4. In a class of 30 students, all students study at least one language: Spanish (S) or Mandarin (M). 16 students
study only Spanish and 8 students study only Mandarin.
 a. Complete the Venn diagram

b. If a student is chosen at random, calculate:

ii. P(M)

iii. P(S ∩ M )

iv. P(S ∪ M )

5. Sixty students were asked where they had travelled to in the last twelve months. The three most popular
destinations were Singapore (S), Dubai (D), and Great Britain (B). The number of students travelling to
each destination is shown in the Venn diagram.

If a student is chosen at random, calculate the probability of the following:

b. P(B ∩ D)

c. P(S ∪ D)
 d. P(S ∩ D ∩ B)

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e. P(B )

f. P ( S ∩B ∩ D' )

6. Mikki calculates that she has a probability of 0.004 of winning the first prize in a photography competition
if the selection is made at random. If 500 photographs are entered into the competition, how many
photographs did Mikki enter?

7. The probability of getting any particular number on a spinner game is given as 0.04. How many numbers
are there on the spinner?

8. The table shows the number of boys and girls studying Maths and Art in a school

a. A student is chosen at random. Calculate the probability that they study Maths

b. A student is chosen at random. Calculate the probability that they study Maths given that the
student is a girl

9. The numbers 1-15 are arranged into two sets of numbers where O = {odd numbers} and P = {prime
 numbers}. Here is the Venn diagram that represent the situation.

a. A number is chosen at random. Calculate the probability that it is prime

b. A number is chosen at random. Calculate the probability that is it prime given that it is odd.

10. Each of the boys and girls in a class are asked how many brothers and sisters they have. The results are
shown in the table

If a student is picked at random, calculate the probability:

b. That it is a boy with two or more brothers or sisters

c. That they have no brothers or sisters given that it is a girl

d. That it is a boy given that they have four or more brothers or sisters

11. Over the course of a season, a volleyball player records how often he is selected to play for his team and
 whether or not his team wins. At the end of the season, he analyses the results and finds that the probability
of being selected was 0.8. If he was selected, the probability of the team winning was 0.65; if he wasn’t
selected, the probability of the team winning was 0.45
a. If the team played 100 matches during the season, calculate how many they won

b. Given that he played in a match, calculate the probability that the team won

12. A biased coin is flipped three times. On each occasion, the probability of getting a head is 0.6
a. Draw a tree diagram that represent the situation

b. Calculate the probability of getting:

ii. Three tails

iii. At least two heads

13. A football team decide to analyses their match result. They look at their probability of winning depending
on whether they scored first in the game or not. The results are presented in the table

a. Calculate the probability that the team score first

b. Calculate the probability that the team draw

c. Given that the team score first, calculate the probability that they draw

d. Given that the team lose, calculate the probability that they didn’t score first