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Test Questions

Year: 8
Topic: Chance

Strand: Statistics and Probability

Substrand: Chance
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Question One

A fruit bowl contains 4 bananas, 2 pears, 3 apples, 3 grapes and 2 oranges

If I pick one piece of fruit from the bowl at random.

Find

(a) P(banana)

(b) P(a pear or orange)

(c) P(not a banana)

(d) P(not an apple or a pear)

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Question Two

A set of cards showing these letters are placed face downwards on a desk.

If I pick one card at random,

Find the following:

(a) P(letter is a Q)

(b) P(not a Q)

(c) P( C or A)

(d) P(not an E, A or R)

Question Three

For the following spinner, work out the probability of each event:

(a) P(landing on E)

(b) P(not landing on E)

(c) P(landing on A or B)

(d) P(landing on one of the first five letters of the alphabet)

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Question Four

A class of 40 students attended the schools athletics and swimming

carnivals. 25 competed in the swimming carnival and 17 in athletics.

15 competed in both carnivals

Display the information on the Venn diagram below

(ii) How many competed in the swimming carnival only?

(ii) The swimming carnival or the athletics carnival but not both?

(iii) How many competed in none of these events?

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Question Five

(i) Shade the part in X and Y

(ii) Shade X or Y

(iii) Shade X but not Y

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(iv) Shade Not in X or Y

Question Six

Complete the two-way table for this Year 8 Transport survey

Walk Car Bus Bus& Cycle Total

Train
Male 57 23 8 106
Female 16 8 2
Total 30 112 62 12 226
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Question Seven

The Venn diagram below shows the sports chosen by 70 students

How many students chose

(i) Hockey and Soccer?

(ii) Soccer only?

(iii) Hockey, soccer and netball?

(iv) At least one sport?

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Question Eight

A school has 140 boys and 160 girls. 250 students have a mobile phone,
130 girls have a mobile phone

Using the table below construct a two-way table showing this information

Boy Girl
Mobile phone 250
No mobile
phone
Total 300

Use your table to answer the following questions:

What is the probability:

(i) the student selected is a girl?

(ii) the student selected at random has a mobile phone?

(iii) that a boy who has a mobile phones is selected?

(iv) a boy is selected given we know the student has a mobile phone?
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