Campion College 5th Form Mathematics

Probability
Part A: Circle the best answer on this paper.

1. The probability that I eat chicken today is 5/9. 6. Which of the following CANNOT represent the
The probability that it rains is ¼. What is the probability of an event occurring?
probability that it rains and I don’t eat chicken? (a) ½ (b) 0 (c) 1 (d) 2
(a) 25/36 (b) 4/36 (c) 15/36 (d) 5/36
7. The probability that it rains on any day is ¼ .
2. A die is tossed 1200 times and the scores The probability that it rains two consecutive
recorded. How many times would you expect to days is?
get a score of 5? (a) ½ (b) ¼ (c) 1/8 (d) 1/16
(a) 200 (b) 240 (c) 600 (d) 1000
8. A whole number between 1 and 10 inclusive is
3. A letter is selected at random from the word selected at random. What is the probability that
SELECTION. What is the probability that the it will be a prime number?
letter is a vowel? (a) 1/10 (b) 1/5 (c) 2/5 (d) 1/2
(a) 1/4 (b) 4/9 (c) 3/9 (d) 5/9
9. A company makes diskettes. The probability
4. A box contains 3 yellow balls and 4 red balls. A that a diskette has bad sectors is 0.01. In a batch
ball is drawn at random and found to be yellow. of 50000 diskettes, how many are expected to
If the yellow ball is not replaced, what is the be faulty?
probability that the next ball drawn will also be (a) 5 (b) 50 (c) 500 (d) 5000
yellow?
(a) 3/7 (b) 2/6 (c) 4/6 (d) 4/7 10. If the rain falls 6 consecutive days in one week,
what is the probability that it rains on the 7th
5. An unbiased die is tossed. The probability that it day?
will show a score of at least 4 is (a) 0 (b) 1/2 (c) 1 (d) Cannot
(a) 1/6 (b) 2/6 (c) 3/6 (d) 5/6 determine from the information

Part B: Answer the following questions on this paper.

Question 1

Question 2
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Question 3

Question 4

Explain.

Question 5