VII CLASS
12. PROBABILITY-1
1. (a) The probability that a student chosen at a random from class 8C owns a cat is .
What is the probability that a student chosen at random from class 8C does not own a cat?
(b) The probability that a student chosen at random from class 8C owns a pair of grey trousers is 0.3.
What probability that a student chosen at random from class 8C does not own a pair of grey
Trousers?
2. Nina calculated the probability of an event as .
Do you agree with Nina? Explain your answer.
3. The password for a laptop is one of the five shown.
245tcb3 541tcb2 315tcc1 924tcc5 815tce2
Angelique says the probability the password contains the letter b is .
Tick ( ) to show if Angelique is correct or not correct.
Correct not correct
Explain your answer.
4. Rajiv does an experiment with four 6-sided dice. A, B, C and D.
He rolls each dice a total of 60 times and records the number of times he rolls the number 6.
Dice A B C D
Number of times 6
12 11 17 9
is rolled
Write down the letter of the dice that is most likely not to be fair.
5. Five students take part in a swimming race.
The probability of some of the students winning the race is given in the table.
Name Anastasia Mia Eva Angelique Jamila
Probability
0.15 0.25 0.2
of winning
Angelique is three times as likely as Jamila to win the race.
Use this information to complete the table.
6. A bag contains 5 red balls and 3 blue balls.
Sophie takes a ball at random, notes its colour and then puts it back in the bag.
She does this a second time.
(a) Complete the tree diagram.
(b) Work out the probability that both of the balls
she takes are blue.
7. Oliver throws a ball a basketball hoop 20 times.
He scores a basket 7 times.
He misses the basket 13 times.
Use this information to estimate the probability of Oliver scoring a basket.
8. The probability Naomi will win her tennis match is 0.3.
Find the probability Naomi will not win her tennis match.
9. A bag contains counters that are red or green or blue.
A counter is picked at random.
The probabilities of picking each colour are shown in the table.
Red Green Blue
0.05 0.3 0.65
Find the probability of not picking a blue counter.
10. (a) Hassan has two fair spinners.
Spinner A has three sections numbered 1, 2 and 3.
Spinner B has five sections numbered 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5.
Hassan spins both spinners.
He draws this possibility diagram.
Find the probability of spinning.
(i) the same number on both spinners.
(ii) a higher number on spinner B than on spinner A.
(b)Hassan also has four other spinners C, D, E and F.
Each of these spinners has four sections numbered 1, 2, 3 and 4.
He spins each spinner a total of 200 times and records the number of times he spins the number 3.
Only one of these is fair spinner.
Write the letter of the spinner that is most likely to be fair.
11.
Bag A contains 2 black marbles and 3 white marbles.
Bag B contains 5 black marbles and 8 white marbles.
(i) Write down the probability that a marble picked at random from bag A is black.
(ii) Toby says,
‘You are more likely to pick a black marble at random from bag B than from bag A.
Because bag B has more black marbles.’
Is Toby correct?
Give a reason for your answer. __________ because __________
(iii) Toby adds some marbles to bag B.
The probability of picking a black marble at random from either bag is now the same.
Work out the smallest number of black marbles and white marbles he adds to bag B.
12. The probability that a train is late is 0.15.
Write down the probability that the train is not late.
13. The probability of spinning a blue colour on a spinner is 0.4.
Find the probability of not spinning a blue colour.
14. Tony spins a spinner with 3 equal sectors. His results are shown in the table.
Score Red Green Blue
Frequency 25 20 15
Tony says, ‘The spinner is fair because the probability of green is .
Is Tony correct? Explain your answer.
15. Anna is going to roll a six-sided dice. She does not know whether or not it is fair
After rolling the dice 30 times, the results are
Dice roll 1 2 3 4 5 6
Frequency 2 3 8 3 10 4
(a) What is the theoretical probability of rolling each number on a six-sided dice?
(b) What is the experimental probability for each number, based on Anna’s rolls?
(c) Do you think the dice is fair?
