1

1 140 students choose which subjects they want to study.

• 122 students choose biology (B).

• 55 students choose chemistry (C).
• 2 students do not choose biology and do not choose chemistry.

B C

(a) Complete the Venn diagram.

[2]

(b) One of these students is picked at random.

Find the probability that this student chooses biology and chemistry.

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

[Total: 3]

V E N N D I A G R A M

The diagram shows 11 cards.

(a) One of these cards is chosen at random.

Write down the probability that the letter on the card is not A.

................................................... [1]
 2

(b) A card is chosen at random from these 11 cards and then replaced.
A second card is then chosen at random.

Find the probability that exactly one card has the letter N.

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

[Total: 4]

3 A bag contains 5 red balls, 4 blue balls and 3 green balls.

(a) Megan picks a ball at random.

Write down the probability that the ball is red or blue.

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

(b) Megan replaces the ball.

She picks a ball at random, notes the colour and replaces the ball.
She repeats this 60 times.

Calculate the number of times the ball is expected to be red or blue.

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

[Total: 2]

4 A bag contains 3 green balls, 4 red balls and 1 blue ball only.
Matt takes a ball from the bag at random.

Some probabilities are marked on the probability scale.

Write down the letter that shows the probability that

(a) Matt takes a red ball,

................................................... [1]
 3

(b) Matt does not take a blue ball.

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

[Total: 2]

5 Rui has a bag containing 5 black pens, 8 red pens and 3 blue pens only.
He takes a pen out of the bag at random.

Draw an arrow (↓) on the probability scale to show the probability that Rui takes

(a) a red pen,

[1]

(b) a red pen or a blue pen.

[1]

[Total: 2]

6 A bag contains green balls and red balls only.

A ball is taken at random from the bag.
The probability of taking a green ball is 0.38 .

Write down the probability of taking

(a) a red ball,

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

(b) a blue ball.

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

[Total: 2]
 4

7 A bag contains brown balls, white balls, black balls and purple balls only.
A ball is taken from this bag at random.

Colour Brown White Black Purple

Probability 0.46 0.22 0.14

(a) Complete the table.

[2]

(b) Which colour is the most likely to be taken?

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

(c) There are 50 balls in this bag.

Work out the number of black balls.

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

[Total: 4]

8 The probability of picking a red sweet from a bag is 0.05 .

Find the probability of not picking a red sweet.

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

[Total: 1]

9 Kim has a 6-sided spinner numbered 1 to 6.

She spins it 63 times and her scores are shown in the table.

Score on spinner 1 2 3 4 5 6

Frequency 12 7 15 11 8 10
 5

(a) Find the relative frequency of scoring a 5 with this spinner.

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

(b) Work out the mean score.

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

[Total: 4]

10 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]
 6

11 A bag contains 5 red balls, 4 blue balls and 3 green balls.

Mick picks 2 of the 12 balls at random, without replacement.

Calculate the probability that the balls are different colours.

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

[Total: 4]

12 A bag contains 3 blue buttons, 8 white buttons and 5 red buttons.

Two buttons are picked at random from the bag, without replacement.

Work out the probability that the two buttons are either both red or both white.

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

[Total: 3]

13 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]
 7

(b) less than 60 mm,

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

(c) 70 mm.

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

[Total: 4]