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1 The Venn diagram shows the number of students in a group of 50 students who wear glasses (G), who wear
trainers (T) and who have a mobile phone (M).

G
T
0 2 3
2
19 14

1
M 9

(a) Use set notation to describe the region that contains only one student.

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

(b) Find .

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

(c) One student is picked at random from the 50 students.

Find the probability that this student wears trainers but does not wear glasses.

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

(d) Two students are picked at random from those wearing trainers.

Find the probability that both students have mobile phones.

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

[Total: 6]

2 In a class activity, all the 15 students wear hats.

7 students wear red hats, 6 students wear green hats and 2 students wear white hats.
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(a) One of these students is picked at random.

Find the probability that this student wears a red hat.

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

(b) Two of the 15 students are picked at random.

Show that the probability that these two students wear hats of the same colour is .

[3]

(c) Three of the 15 students are picked at random.

Find the probability that at least two of these three students wear red hats.

................................................... [4]

[Total: 8]

3 The heights, h metres, of the 120 boys in an athletics club are recorded.
The table shows information about the heights of the boys.

Height
(h metres)

Frequency 7 18 30 24 27 14
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(a) (i) Write down the modal class.

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

(ii) Calculate an estimate of the mean height.

................................................... m [4]

(b) (i) One boy is chosen at random from the club.

Find the probability that this boy has a height greater than 1.8 m.

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

(ii) Three boys are chosen at random from the club.

Calculate the probability that one of the boys has a height greater than 1.8 m and the other two
boys each have a height of 1.4 m or less.

................................................... [4]

(c) (i) Use the frequency table to complete the cumulative frequency table.

Height
(h metres)
Cumulative
7 25
frequency

[2]
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(ii) On the grid, draw a cumulative frequency diagram to show this information.

[3]

(d) Use your diagram to find an estimate for

(i) the median height,

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

(ii) the 40th percentile.

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

[Total: 18]

4 40 children were asked if they have a computer or a phone or both.

The Venn diagram shows the results.
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(a) A child is chosen at random from the children who have a computer.

Write down the probability that this child also has a phone.

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

(b) Complete the Venn diagram.

[2]

[Total: 3]

5 The test scores of 14 students are shown below.

21 21 23 26 25 21 22 20 21 23 23 27 24 21
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(a) Find the range, mode, median and mean of the test scores.

Range = ...................................................

Mode = ...................................................

Median = ...................................................

Mean = ................................................... [6]

(b) A student is chosen at random.

Find the probability that this student has a test score of more than 24.

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

[Total: 7]

6 Sushila has a bag that contains 10 red balls and 8 blue balls.
She takes one ball at random from the bag.

Find the probability that she takes a red ball.

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

[Total: 1]

7 20 students each record the mass, p grams, of their pencil case.

The table below shows the results.

Mass
(p grams)
Frequency 2 5 4 6 3
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(a) Calculate an estimate of the mean mass.

................................................... g [4]

(b) Use the frequency table above to complete the cumulative frequency table.

Mass
(p grams)
Cumulative
20
frequency

[2]

(c) A student is chosen at random.

Find the probability that this student has a pencil case with a mass greater than 150 g.

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

[Total: 7]

Bag A contains 3 black balls and 2 white balls.

Bag B contains 1 black ball and 3 white balls.

A ball is taken at random from each bag.

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(a) Show that a black ball is more likely to be taken from bag A than from bag B.

[1]

(b) Find the probability that the two balls have different colours.

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

[Total: 4]

9 The time taken for each of 120 students to complete a cooking challenge is shown in the table.

Time (t minutes)

Frequency 44 32 28 12 4

(a) Write down the modal time interval.

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

(b) Write down the interval containing the median time.

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

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(c) Calculate an estimate of the mean time.

................................................... min [4]

(d) A student is chosen at random.

Find the probability that this student takes more than 40 minutes.

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

[Total: 7]

10 Samira and Sonia each have a bag containing 20 sweets.

In each bag, there are 5 red, 6 green and 9 yellow sweets.

(a) Samira chooses one sweet at random from her bag.

Write down the probability that she chooses a yellow sweet.

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

(b) Sonia chooses two sweets at random, without replacement, from her bag.

(i) Show that the probability that she chooses two green sweets is .

[2]
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(ii) Calculate the probability that the sweets she chooses are not both the same colour.

................................................... [4]

[Total: 7]

11 The frequency table shows information about the time, m minutes, that each of 160 people spend in a library.

Time
(m minutes)

Frequency 3 39 43 55 11 9

(a) (i) Find the probability that one of these people, chosen at random, spends more than 100 minutes
in the library.

................................................... [1]
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(ii) Calculate an estimate of the mean time spent in the library.

................................................... min [4]

(b) Complete the cumulative frequency table below.

Time
(m minutes)

Cumulative
3 42
frequency

[2]
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(c) On the grid, draw the cumulative frequency diagram.

[3]

(d) Use your cumulative frequency diagram to find

(i) the median,

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

(ii) the interquartile range,

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

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(iii) the 90th percentile,

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

(iv) the number of people who spend more than 30 minutes in the library.

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

[Total: 17]

12 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]

(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]

13 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]

(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]
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[Total: 3]

14 The table shows the probability that a person has blue, brown or green eyes.

Eye colour Blue Brown Green

Probability 0.4 0.5 0.1

Use the table to work out the probability that two people, chosen at random,

(a) have blue eyes,

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

(b) have different coloured eyes.

Answer(b) ................................................... [4]

[Total: 6]

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

F S

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

One student does not study French or Spanish.
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(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]