PROBABILITY

1. Jane records the number of telephone calls she receives each day for two weeks.

5 6 10 0 15 6 12 2 13 16 0 16 6 10

(a) Calculate the mean.

Answer (a) …………………….…………

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(b) Find the median.

Answer (b) …………………….…………

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(c) Write down the mode.

Answer (c) ……….….………….………..

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(d) Complete the frequency table below.

Number of calls 0–4 5–9 10 – 14 15 – 19

Frequency
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(e) Find the probability that Jane receives

(i) ten or more calls,

Answer (e)(i) ………………….…………

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(ii) less than five calls.

Answer (e)(ii) ………………….…………

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(f) Estimate the number of days in the next six weeks that Jane can expect to receive 10 – 14
calls.

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2. (a) There are 12 boys and 13 girls in a choir.

The teacher chooses one choir member at random.

What is the probability that this is a girl?

Write your answer as a fraction.

Answer (a) ……….….…………

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(b) The probability that Carla arrives at school before 08 00 is 20 .

What is the probability that Carla does not arrive before 08 00?

Write your answer as a fraction.

Answer (b) ……….….…………

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3. (a) There are 12 boys and 17 girls in a choir.

The teacher chooses one choir member at random.

What is the probability that this is a girl?

Write your answer as a fraction.

Answer (a) ……….….…………

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(b) The probability that Carla arrives at school before 08 00 is 20 .

What is the probability that Carla does not arrive before 08 00?

Write your answer as a fraction.

Answer (b) ……….….…………

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4. A bag of 30 sweets contains 8 chocolates, 13 nougats and 9 toffees.

A sweet is selected at random.

What is the probability that it is a toffee?

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5. The diagram shows a six-sided spinner.

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(a) Amy spins a biased spinner and the probability she gets a two is 36

Find the probability she

Amy spins a biased spinner and the probability she gets a two is

(i) does not get a two,

Answer (a) (i) …….……………..………

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(ii) gets a seven,

Answer (a) (ii) …….……………..………

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(iii) gets a number on the spinner less than 7.

Answer (a) (iii) …….……………………

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(b) Joel spins his blue spinner 99 times and gets a two 17 times.
Write down the relative frequency of getting a two with Joel’s spinner.

Answer (b) …….…………………………

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(c) The relative frequency of getting a two with Piero’s spinner is 102
Which of the three spinners, Amy’s, Joel’s or Piero’s, is most likely to give a two?

Answer (c) …….…………………………

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6. A bag contains 24 discs.
10 discs are red, 9 discs are green and 5 discs are yellow.

(a) The number of discs of each colour can be shown by three sectors on a pie chart.
The sector angle for the red discs is 150°.

Work out the sector angle for

(i) the green discs,

Answer (a)(i) ……..……………

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(ii) the yellow discs.

Answer (a)(ii) ……..……………

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(iii) Complete the pie chart below and label the sectors.

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(b) A disc is chosen at random.

Find, as a fraction, the probability of each of the following events.

(i) Event A: the disc is red.

Answer (b)(i) ……..……………

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(ii) Event B: the disc is red or yellow.

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(iii) Event C: the disc is not yellow.

Answer (b)(iii) …….……………

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(c)

P ro b ab ility S cale
Im p o ssib le C ertain

(c)(i) ........... (c)(ii) ...........

The diagram shows a horizontal probability scale.

Write on the dotted lines in the diagram, the probability of

(i) an impossible event,

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(ii) a certain event.

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  

(d) Using the notation, A , B C

and , mark the positions of your three answers in part (b) on
the Probability Scale diagram in part (c).
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7. Carlos is in a class of 12 students.

He compares the results of the students in a mathematics test with their results in a history test.

The table shows these results.

Student A B C D E F G H I J K L
Mathematics mark 17 8 11 15 14 19 9 12 19 18 13 15
History mark 10 13 10 8 11 7 14 11 10 11 11 10

(a) A student is chosen at random.

What is the probability that the student scored more than 10 marks

(i) in mathematics,

Answer (a)(i) ……..……………

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 (ii) in mathematics and in history,

Answer (a)(ii) ……..……………

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(iii) in at least one subject?

Answer (a)(iii) ……….…………

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(b) The mean mathematics mark is 14.2.

Calculate the mean history mark.

Answer (b) ………………………

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(c)

15
14
13
12
11
H isto ry
m ark 1 0
9
8
7

0 7 8 9 1 0 11 1 2 1 3 1 4 1 5 1 6 1 7 1 8 1 9 2 0
M ath em atics m ark

(i) On the grid, plot the points to show the results of the 12 students.
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(ii) Draw a line of best fit.

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(iii) What type of correlation does this show?

Answer (c)(iii) …………………

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