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Summative B

The document contains a series of probability problems involving dice, card draws, lottery tickets, and survey data from high school students regarding elective courses. It includes questions about sample spaces, event probabilities, independence, and mutual exclusivity. Additionally, it requires the use of Venn diagrams and tree diagrams to visualize outcomes and calculate specific probabilities.

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Summative B

The document contains a series of probability problems involving dice, card draws, lottery tickets, and survey data from high school students regarding elective courses. It includes questions about sample spaces, event probabilities, independence, and mutual exclusivity. Additionally, it requires the use of Venn diagrams and tree diagrams to visualize outcomes and calculate specific probabilities.

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PROBABILITY

SUMMATIVE – B

1. Two six-sided die are thrown at the same time, then the sum of the numbers is
taken.
a) List the sample space.

b) P (sum more than 8)

c) P (sum is a prime number)

d) P (sum is even given that the sum is not prime)

2. High school students were surveyed as to their senior year course elective first
choices. The results appear below. Complete the table and answer the following
questions.

Senior Elective Course Options


Gender History French English Total
Female 50 43 132
Male 30 48
Total 90 69 250

a) What is the probability that the student chosen at random is a female?

b) What is the probability that the student chosen at random has selected English?

c) What is the probability that the student chosen at random is a female and has
selected history?

d) What is the probability that a student chosen is a female or selected French?

e) What is the probability that a student chosen at random selected history given
the student is female?

f) What is the probability that a student chosen at random is a male given that they
chose English?
3. A card is drawn from a deck of cards. Events E1, E2, E3, E4 and E5 are defined as
follows:
E1: Getting an 8
E2: Getting a king
E3: Getting a face card
E4: Getting an ace
E5: Getting a heart
a) Are events E1 and E2 mutually exclusive?
b) Are events E2 and E3 mutually exclusive?
c) Are events E3 and E4 mutually exclusive?
d) Are events E4 and E5 mutually exclusive?
e) Are events E5 and E1 mutually exclusive?

4. A lottery box contains 50 lottery tickets numbered 1 to 50. If a lottery ticket is


drawn at random, what is the probability that the number drawn is a multiple of 3
or 5?

5. Two sets of cards with a letter on each card as follows are placed into separate bags.

Sara randomly picked one card from each bag. Find the probability that:

a) She picked the letters ‘J’ and ‘R’.

b) Both letters are ‘L’.

c) Both letters are vowels.

6. Two fair dice, one coloured white and one coloured red, are thrown. Find the
probability that:
a) the score on the red die is 2 and white die is 5.

b) the score on the white die is 1 and red die is even.


7. Let event C = taking an English class. Let event D = taking a speech class.
Suppose P(C) = 0.75, P(D) = 0.3, P(C|D) = 0.75 and P(C and D) = 0.225.
Justify your answers to the following questions numerically.

a) Are C and D independent?

b) Are C and D mutually exclusive?

c) What is P(D|C)?

8. Sasha takes exams in Physics, Chemistry and Biology. The probabilities that she
passes are 0.5, 0.62 and 0.9 respectively. Given that her performances in each
subject are independent, draw a tree diagram to show the possible outcomes. Find
the probabilities that Susan

a) fails all three examinations

b) fails at least one examination

c) Given that Sasha fails just one examination, find the probability that it is Physics
that she fails.

9. Two events A and B are such that P(A)=0.7, P(B)=0.5, and P(A|B)=0.3.
Find P(B | A).

10. Given that Y and P are two events and P(Y) = 0.57, P(P) = 0.5 and P(Y ∪ P) = 0.84,
sketch Venn diagram and find:

a) P( Y ∩ P)
b) P( Y|P)
c) P( P|Y)
d) P( Y|P′)
11. 100 women were asked where they like to buy their morning beverage :
Starbucks(S), Costa(C) or Local Café(L)

45 like Starbucks
38 like Costa
44 like Local Café
9 like both Starbucks and Costa
11 like both Starbucks and Local Cafe
15 like both Costa and Local Cafe
5 like all three of them

a) By drawing a Venn Diagram, find n((𝑆 ∪ 𝐶 l ) ∩ 𝐿)

b) Find the probability that a woman selected at random likes only Starbucks.

c) Find the probability that a woman selected at random likes Local café , given that
she likes Costa.

d) Find the probability that a woman selected at random likes Starbucks , given that
she dislikes Costa.

12. Suppose 5 people ‘A’,’B’,’C’,’D’ and ‘E’ stand in a queue. ‘A’ cannot stand together with
‘B’ and ‘C’ cannot stand together with ‘A’. Find the probability of such arrangements.

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