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Theoretical and Experimental Probability Revision

(a) (b) (c) (d)


A bag contains 6 red sweets, 5 A fair six-sided spinner is There are 10 balls in a bag. 7 There are 5 white counters, 8
orange sweets and 3 yellow numbered 1 to 6. The spinner is of the balls are red and the black counters and 7 grey
sweets. Find the probability of spun once. Find the probability rest are yellow. When a ball is counters in a bag. A counter is
choosing an orange sweet at that the spinner lands on a picked from the bag at chosen at random. What is the
random from the bag. multiple of 3. random, what is the probability probability that it is not white?
that it is blue?

(e) (f) (g)


A purse contains 20 coins. Zack rolls a biased dice. The probability that it lands on each of The probability that a biased
They are either 10p or 5p the numbers 1 to 4 is shown in the table. The dice is twice as spinner lands on a 2 is 0.3.
coins. The probability of likely to land on a 5 as it is to land on a 6. Complete the table. Jemima spins the spinner 150
choosing a 5p coin at random times. Work out an estimate
is 0.4. How many 10p coins for the number of times the
Number 1 2 3 4 5 6
are in the purse? spinner will land on a 2.
Probability 0.2 0.05 0.1 0.2

(i) (k)
Leon has a fair four-sided spinner A bag contains 12 red counters and 6 blue counters. Some more
containing the numbers 1, 3, 5 and 7. 1 3 5 7 blue counters are added to the bag, so that the probability of
He spins it twice and adds the two 3
choosing a blue counter is now 7. How many blue counters have
numbers together to get a total. 1
been added to the bag?
(a) Complete the sample space.
(b) Calculate the probability of Leon 3 6
getting a total of 10 or more.
5 12

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