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31.03.2021
(a) What is the probability that the first guest to arrive is given a room which is a prime
number? (1 is not a prime number.)
(b) The first guest to arrive is given a room which is a prime number.
What is the probability that the second guest to arrive is given a room which is a prime
number?
2. All 24 students in a class are asked whether they like football and whether they like basketball.
Some of the results are shown in the Venn diagram below.
F B
7 12 2
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1
What is the probability that this student likes basketball?
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3. Two students are selected at random from a group of 10 boys and 12 girls.
Find the probability that
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4.
Grade 1 2 3 4 5 6 7
Number of students 1 2 4 7 4 8 2
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(b) From all the students who gained grades 4 or 5 or 6 or 7, two are chosen at random.
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(c) Students are chosen at random, one by one, from the original 28, until the student chosen
has a grade 5.
2
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(i) Find the probability that all three balls he chooses are yellow.
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(ii) Find the probability that at least one of the three balls he chooses is green.
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6.
p F F
F
p q N F N F
F F
q
N F
N F
N F
F = fa u lty
N F = n o t fa u lty
The tree diagram shows a testing procedure on calculators, taken from a large batch.
1
.
Each time a calculator is chosen at random, the probability that it is faulty (F) is 20
3
Answer (b)(i) ………..…………
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(c) If exactly one out of two calculators tested is faulty, then a third calculator is chosen at
random.
Calculate the probability that exactly one of the first two calculators is faulty and the
third one is faulty.
(e) In one month, 1000 batches of calculators are tested in this way.
4
How many batches are expected to be rejected?
5
7.
B ag A B ag B
2
B ag A
3 q b la c k b a ll
r w h ite b a ll
p
B ag B
s b la c k b a ll
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(ii) Find the probability that Nadia chooses Bag A and then a white ball.
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8. Claude goes to school by bus.
If the bus is late, the probability that Claude is late to school is 0.8.
If the bus is not late, the probability that Claude is late to school is 0.05.
(i) Calculate the probability that the bus is late and Claude is late to school.
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