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Angels International College, Faisalabad

DP 1 Probability and Statistics Formative test

25th April 2024

Q1.

Bag A contains three white balls and four red balls. Two balls are chosen at random without
replacement. [5 marks]

Bag A contains three white balls and four red balls. Two balls are chosen at random without
replacement. Bag B contains four white balls and three red balls. When two balls are chosen at random
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without replacement from bag B, the probability that they are both white is . A standard die is rolled.
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If 1 or 2 is obtained, two balls are chosen without replacement from bag A, otherwise they are chosen
from bag B.

ii. Find the probability that the two balls are white. [5 marks]
iii. Given that both balls are white, find the probability that they were chosen from bag A. [4
marks]

Q2.

Jan plays a game where she tosses two fair six-sided dice. She wins a prize if the sum of her scores is 5.
a. Jan tosses the two dice once. Find the probability that she wins a prize.
b. Jan tosses the two dice 8 times. Find the probability that she wins 3 prizes
Q3.

a. Find the following probabilities


i. P(E∩F)
ii. P(F)
b. Find the probability that
i. Jose misses his bus and is not late for school;
ii. Jose misses his bus, given that he is late for school
c. The cost for each day that José catches the bus is 3 euros. José goes to school on Monday and
Tuesday. Copy and complete the probability distribution table [3 marks].

d. The cost for each day that José catches the bus is 3 euros. José goes to school on Monday and
Tuesday. [2 marks] Find the expected cost for José for both days.
Q4.

a. Find the probability that it passes inspection. [3 marks]


b. The company would like the probability that a box passes inspection to be 0.87. Find the
percentage of boxes that should be made by machine B to achieve this. [4 marks]

Q5.

Lucy is doing a quiz. For each question there’s a 45% chance that it is about music, 30% chance that
it is about TV and 25% chance that it is about literature. The probability that Lucy answers a
question correctly is 0.6 for music, 0.95 for TV and 0.4 for literature.

a) Draw a tree diagram to represent this information. [4 marks]


b) Given that Lucy answered a question correctly, find the probability that it was about TV. [5
marks]

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