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1. A spinner has 1 orange section and 4 pink sections (all equal).

It is spun twice.
Use this tree diagram to answer the following:

a. What is the probability of getting orange twice?

b. What is the probability of not getting orange twice?

Probability Tree

c. What is the probability of getting the same colour twice?

d. What is the probability of getting different colours?

2. The probability of a biased coin landing Heads up is 0.9

It is tossed twice
Complete this tree diagram and hence answer the following
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a. What is the probability of getting Tails twice?

b. What is the probability of not getting Tails twice?

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 c. What is the probability of getting the same result twice?

d. What is the probability of getting Heads exactly once?

3. The probability of a certain type of TV being faulty is 0.29

Two TVs are selected at random
Complete this tree diagram and hence answer the following:
Probability Tree

a. What is the probability of getting two faulty TVs?

b. What is the probability of not getting two faulty TVs?

c. What is the probability of getting exactly one faulty TV?

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d. What is the probability of not getting exactly one faulty TV?

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 4. One drawer contains 2 blue socks and 7 purple socks.
A second drawer contains 3 blue socks and 2 purple socks.
A sock is chosen at random from each drawer.
Use this tree diagram to answer the following:

a. What is the probability of getting two blue socks?

b. What is the probability of getting purple at least once?

Probability Tree

c. What is the probability of getting two socks of different colours?

d. What is the probability of getting two socks of the same colour?

5. One spinner has 5 black sections and 5 red sections (all equal)
Another spinner has 1 black section and 5 red sections (all equal)
Complete this tree diagram and hence answer the following:

a. What is the probability of getting red twice?

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b. What is the probability of getting black at least once?

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 c. What is the probability of getting the same colour twice?

d. What is the probability of getting different colours?

6. One box contains 2 white balls and 6 yellow balls. 2

A second box contains 2 white balls and 5 yellow balls.
A ball is chosen at random from each box.
Complete this tree diagram and hence answer the following:

a. What is the probability of getting two yellow balls?

Probability Tree

b. What is the probability of getting white at least once?

c. What is the probability of getting two balls of different colours?

d. What is the probability of getting two balls of the same colour?

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 7. The probability that Neil wins a game of chance is 0.4. He plays 2 games. Complete the tree
diagram below.

Game 1 Game 2 Probabilities

Win

No Win

Win
No Win

No Win
Find the probability that

a. He wins both games

Probability Tree

b. He wins only one game

8. Anna and Bill are set to fail their maths exam because they are not good attenders at school.
On a particular day:
P(Anna attends school) = 0.6
P(Bill attends school) = 0.7
Complete the tree diagram below.

Anna Bill Probabilities

Attends
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Doesn’t
Attend

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 Find the probability that:

a. Neither is at school

b. At least one of them is at school

9. There are 6 red and 3 white discs in a bag. A disc is drawn, then replaced and another disc is
drawn.

Disc 1 Disc 2 Probabilities

Probability Tree

Find the probability that:

a. Both discs are the same colour

b. At least one of the discs was red

10. Melanie is a sixth form student who has 2 classes with homework due on a Tuesday.
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The probability that she has her Maths homework is "
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The probability that she has her English homework is $%
Draw a probability tree diagram in the space below.

Maths English Probabilities

HOMEWORK

Use your diagram to find, P(No homework) and P(only one piece of homework)

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 11. A bag contains 3 purple counters, 2 green ones and 5 yellow ones.
A counter is taken from the bag at random and then replaced.
A second counter is then drawn from the bag.
Complete the tree diagram:

Counter 1 Counter 2 Probabilities

Purple

Green

Yellow
Probability Tree

12. A bag contains 7 red counters and 4 blue counters

A disc is taken at random from the bag and not put back in
A second disc is then removed from the bag.
Complete the tree diagram below:

Counter 1 Counter 2 Probabilities

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Find the probability that:

a. Both discs are red

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 b. Both discs are blue

c. Both discs are different

13. Julie does a statistical experiment. She throws a dice 600 times. She scores six 200 times.
a. Is the dice fair? Explain your answer.

Julie then throws a fair red dice once and a fair blue dice once.

b. Complete the probability tree diagram to show the outcomes. Label clearly the
branches of the probability tree diagram.
The probability tree diagram has been started in the space below.
Probability Tree

c.
i. Julie throws a fair red dice once and a fair blue dice once. Calculate the
probability that Julie gets a six on both the red dice and the blue dice.

ii. Calculate the probability that Julie gets at least one six.
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14. Julie and Pat are going to the cinema.

The probability that Julie will arrive late is 0.2
The probability that Pat will arrive late is 0.6
The two events are independent.

a. Complete the diagram.

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Probability Tree

b. Work out the probability that Julie and Pat will both arrive late.

15. Salika travels to school by train every day.

The probability that her train will be late on any day is 0.3
a. Complete the probability tree diagram for Monday and Tuesday.
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b. Work out the probability that her train will be late on at least one of these two days.

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 16. Amy is going to play one game of snooker and one game of billiards.
The probability that she will win the game of snooker is 3/4
The probability that she will win the game of billiards is 1/3
a. Complete the probability tree diagram.

b. Work out the probability that Amy will win exactly one game.
Probability Tree

Amy played one game of snooker and one game of billiards on a number of Fridays. She
won at both snooker and billiards on 21 Fridays.

c. Work out an estimate for the number of Fridays on which Amy did not win either
game.
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 17. Loren has two bags.
The first bag contains 3 red counters and 2 blue counters.
The second bag contains 2 red counters and 5 blue counters.
Loren takes one counter at random from each bag.
a. Complete the probability tree diagram.
Probability Tree

b. Work out the probability that Loren takes one counter of each colour.

18. Simon plays one game of tennis and one game of snooker.
The probability that Simon will win at tennis is 3/4
The probability that Simon will win at snooker is 1/3
a. Complete the probability tree diagram below.
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 b. Work out the probability that Simon wins both games.

c. Work out the probability that Simon will win only one game.

19. Julie has 100 music CDs.

58 of the CDs are classical.
22 of the CDs are folk.
The rest of the CDs are jazz.

On Saturday, Julie chooses one CD at random from the 100 CDs. On Sunday, Julie chooses one
CD at random from the 100 CDs.

a. Complete the probability tree diagram.

Probability Tree

b. Calculate the probability that Julie will choose a jazz CD on both Saturday and
Sunday.
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c. Calculate the probability that Julie will choose at least one jazz CD on Saturday and
Sunday.

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 20. Lucy and Jessica take a test.
The probability that Lucy will pass the test is 0.7
The probability that Jessica will pass the test is 0.4
a. Complete the probability tree diagram
Probability Tree

b. Work out the probability that only one of the 2 girls will pass the test.

21. Jacob has 2 bags of sweets.

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Bag P contains 3 green sweets and 4 red sweets.

Bag Q contains 1 green sweet and 3 yellow sweets.

Jacob takes one sweet at random from each bag.

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 a. Complete the tree diagram.

b. Calculate the probability that Jacob will take 2 green sweets.

Probability Tree

22. There are two sets of traffic lights on Georgina’s route to school. The probability that the first
set of traffic lights will be red is 0.4 The probability that the second set of traffic lights will be
red is 0.3
a. Complete the probability tree diagram.
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b. Work out the probability that both sets of traffic lights will be red.

c. Work out the probability that exactly one set of traffic lights will be red.

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 23. There are 3 boys and 7 girls at a playgroup.
Mrs Gold selects two children at random.
a. Complete the probability tree diagram below.
Probability Tree

b. Work out the probability that Mrs Gold selects two girls.
HOMEWORK

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