Name: _______________________Teacher:________________________

Year 10 / Term 2 / Test 1

 
Vectors and Probability
 
Date: Thursday 9th November
 
Time: 50 minutes
 

Total marks available: 41

Total marks achieved: ______

You may use your calculator throughout this exam.

Remember to show all workings.
Q1.
There are 20 counters in a bag.
3 of the counters are red.
8 of the counters are blue.
The rest of the counters are yellow.
Zakir takes at random a counter from the bag.
Work out the probability that Zakir takes a yellow counter.

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(Total for Question is 2 marks)

Q2.
 
The diagram shows a fair 8-sided spinner.

4 sides of the spinner are yellow, 3 sides are green and 1 side is black.
Jan spins the spinner once.
(i)  Circle the word from the list below that best describes the likelihood that the spinner lands on black.

impossible        unlikely        evens        likely        certain

(ii)  On the probability scale, mark with a cross X the probability that the spinner lands on white.

(iii)  On the probability scale, mark with a cross X the probability that the spinner lands on yellow.

 (Total for question = 3 marks)

 Q3.
 There are 20 beads in a bag.
1 of the beads is blue.
The rest of the beads are either red or white.
Sharita takes at random a bead from the bag.
(a) Write down the probability that she will take
(i) a blue bead,
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(ii) a green bead.
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(1)
The probability that Sharita will take a red bead from the bag is 7/10
(b) Find the probability that she will not take a red bead.
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(1)

(Total for question = 3 marks)

Q4.
 A, C and D are points such that

(a)  Find as a column vector.

........................................................... (2)

Given that the position vector of D is and E is the point such that
(b)  find the coordinates of E.

( ................ , ................ ) (2)

 
(Total for question = 4 marks)
 Q5.
 
Sarah has a biased 4-sided spinner.
The spinner can land on 1, 2, 3 or 4
The probability that the spinner will land on 1, 2 or 4 is given in the table.

(a)   Work out the probability that the spinner will land on 3

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(2)

Ryan is going to spin the spinner 80 times.

(b)   Work out an estimate for the number of times he should expect the spinner to land on 2

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(2)

(Total for Question is 4 marks)

Q6.
 Here is the parallelogram ABCD.

(a)  Find the magnitude of .

Give your answer correct to 3 significant figures.

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The point A has coordinates (4, 2)

(b)  Work out the coordinates of the point C.

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The diagonals of the parallelogram ABCD cross at the point E.

(c)  Find as a column vector,

...........................................................(3)
(Total for question = 8 marks)

Q7.
 
There are 52 cards in a pack.
12 cards are picture cards.
40 cards are number cards.
Melina takes at random a card from the pack.
She keeps the card and then takes at random a second card from the remainder of the pack.
(a)  Complete the probability tree diagram.

(3)
(b)  Work out the probability that the two cards Melina takes are both picture cards or both number cards.

........................................................... (3)
(Total for question = 6 marks)
 Q8.
 
The diagram shows trapezium ABCD.
 Give your answer in its simplest form.

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(2)
The point P lies on the line AC such that AP : PC = 2 : 1
(b)  Is BPD a straight line?
Show your working clearly.

(4)
 
(Total for question = 6 marks)
 

Q9.

A bag contains x counters.

7 of the counters are blue.
Sam takes at random a counter from the bag and does not replace it.
Jill then takes a counter from the bag.
 The probability they both take a blue counter is 0.2
(a) Form an equation involving x.

Show that your equation can be expressed as x2 − x − 210 = 0

(2)

Calculate the value of x.

x = ...........................................................
(3)

(Total for question = 5 marks)