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1 A football team washes its shirts.

There are 5 red, 3 blue and 6 green shirts.
One shirt is taken from the washing machine at random.

Find the probability that it is

(a) red,

Answer(a)................................................... [1]

(b) blue or green,

Answer(b)................................................... [1]

(c) white.

Answer(c)................................................... [1]

[Total: 3]

2 Celine buys a bag of 24 tulip bulbs.

There are 8 red bulbs and 5 white bulbs.
All of the other bulbs are yellow.

Celine chooses a bulb at random from the bag.

(a) Write down the probability that the bulb is red or white.

Answer(a)................................................... [1]

(b) Write down the probability that the bulb is yellow.

Answer(b)................................................... [1]

[Total: 2]
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3 A bag contains different coloured counters.

Sasha takes a counter at random, records its colour, and replaces it.
She does this 90 times and records her results in the pie chart below.

Green

Red

136°
148°

Blue

(a) Write down the relative frequency of Sasha choosing a red counter.

Answer(a)................................................... [1]

(b) Work out the number of times a green counter is chosen.

Answer(b)................................................... [3]

[Total: 4]

4 You may use this Venn diagram to help you answer the questions.

F S
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In a class of 30 students, 25 study French (F), 18 study Spanish (S).

One student does not study French or Spanish.

(a) Find the number of students who study French and Spanish.

Answer(a)................................................... [2]

(b) One of the 30 students is chosen at random.

Find the probability that this student studies French but not Spanish.

Answer(b)................................................... [1]

[Total: 3]

5 A random sample of 200 families was taken from the families in a city.
The number of children in each family was recorded.
The results are shown in the table below.

Number of children in
0 1 2 3 4 5 or more
a family

Number of families 25 41 73 42 13 6

(a) Find the relative frequency of families with 2 children.

Answer(a)................................................... [1]

(b) There are 5400 families in the city.

Find an estimate of the number of families with 2 children.

Answer(b)................................................... [2]

[Total: 3]
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6 A biased 4-sided dice is rolled.

The possible scores are 1, 2, 3 or 4.
The probability of rolling a 1, 3 or 4 is shown in the table.

Score 1 2 3 4
Probability 0.15 0.3 0.35

Complete the table. [2]

[Total: 2]

7 Samira takes part in two charity runs.

The probability that she finishes each run is 0.8 .

First run Second run

0.8
finishes
finishes
0.8
0.2
does not
finish

finishes
0.2 0.8
does not
finish
0.2
does not
finish

Find the probability that Samira finishes at least one run.

Answer................................................... [3]

[Total: 3]

8 Hattie has a box of coloured pens.

She takes a pen at random from the box.
The probability that she takes a red pen is 0.4 .

(a) Work out the probability that she does not take a red pen.

................................................... [1]
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(b) The box contains only blue, red and green pens.
There are 15 blue pens and 15 green pens.

Complete the table.

Colour of pen Blue Red Green

Number of pens 15 15

Probability 0.4

[2]

[Total: 3]

9 Paul and Sammy take part in a race.

The probability that Paul wins the race is .

The probability that Sammy wins the race is 26%.

Who is more likely to win the race?

Give a reason for your answer.

Answer.........................................because............................................................................................ [2]

[Total: 2]

10 The table shows the number of screws of different lengths in a box of 100 screws.

Length (mm) 20 40 50 60

Number of screws 18 36 24 22

A screw is chosen at random from the box.

Find the probability that the screw has length

(a) 50 mm,

................................................... [1]
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(b) less than 60 mm,

................................................... [2]

(c) 70 mm.

................................................... [1]

[Total: 4]

11 David goes to college by bus.

On 6 mornings out of 45, the bus is late.
In one year David goes to college by bus 180 times.

Estimate how many mornings the bus is late in one year.

................................................... [2]

[Total: 2]