1.

A
B B

A C

B B
A

The diagram shows a fair spinner in the shape of a rectangular octagon.

The spinner can land on A or B or C.
Marc spins the spinner.

Write down the probability that the spinner will land on A.

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(Total 2 marks)
2. Ishah spins a fair 5-sided spinner.
She then throws a fair coin.

(a) List all the possible outcomes she could get.

The first one has been done for you.

(1, head).........................................................................................................

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(2)
Ishah spins the spinner once and throws the coin once.

(b) Work out the probability that she will get a 1 and a head.

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(1)
(Total 3 marks)
3. There are eight marbles in a bag.

Four marbles are blue (B),

two marbles are red (R)
and two marbles are green (G).

R B

G B
R
B
G
B

Steve takes a marble at random from the bag.

(a) On the probability scale, mark with the letter B, the probability that
Steve will take a blue marble.

0 1 1
2
(1)
(b) On the probability scale, mark with the letter G, the probability that
Steve will take a green marble.

0 1 1
2
(1)

(c) On the probability scale, mark with the letter Y, the probability that
Steve will take a yellow marble.

0 1 1
2
(1)
(Total 3 marks)
4. Lucy uses some letter cards to spell the word “NOVEMBER”.

N O V E M B E R

Lucy takes one of these cards at random.

Write down the probability that Lucy takes a card with a letter E.

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(Total 2 marks)
5. Here are some statements.
Draw an arrow from each statement to the word which best describes its
likelihood.

One has been done for you.

Certain

A head is obtained when a fair coin is thrown

once.

Likely

A number less than 7 will be scored when an

ordinary six-sided dice is rolled once.

Even

It will rain every day for a week next July in

London.

Unlikely
A red disc is obtained when a disc is taken at
random from a bag containing 9 red discs and 2
blue discs.
Impossible

(Total 3 marks)
6. There are three beads in a bag.
One bead is red, one bead is white and one bead is yellow.

Sarah takes, at random, a bead from the bag.

She looks at its colour and then puts the bead back in the bag.

W
R

On the probability line,

(i) mark with the letter R the probability that Sarah takes a red bead.

(ii) mark with the letter B the probability that Sarah takes a black
bead.

0 1 1
2
(2)
(Total 2 marks)
7. A bag contains some beads which are red or green or blue or yellow.

The table shows the number of beads of each colour.

Colour Red Green Blue Yellow

Number of
3 2 5 2
beads

Samire takes a bead at random from the bag.

Write down the probability that she takes a blue bead.

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(Total 2 marks)
8.

yellow red
green
green

red
red
white

Here is a fair 7-sided spinner.

The spinner is to be spun once.
The spinner will land on one of the colours.

(a) On which colour is the spinner most likely to land?

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(1)

(b) Write down the probability that the spinner will land on green.

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(1)
(Total 2 marks)

9. On the probability scale below, mark

(i) with the letter S, the probability that it will snow in London in June,

(ii) with the letter H, the probability that when a fair coin is thrown once it
comes down heads,

(iii) with the letter M, the probability that it will rain in Manchester next
year.

0 1
(Total 3 marks)
10. Joshua rolls an ordinary dice once.
It has faces marked 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6.

(a) Write down the probability that he gets

(i) a 6,
………………………

(ii) an odd number,

………………………

(iii) a number less than 3,

………………………

(iv) an 8.
………………………
(4)
Ken rolls a different dice 60 times. This dice also has six faces.
The table gives information about Ken’s scores.
Score on dice Frequency
1 9
2 11
3 20
4 2
5 8
6 10

(b) Explain what you think is different about Ken’s dice.

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(1)
(Total 5 marks)