Worksheet 1 - Probability of an Event
Worksheet 2 – Compile and use a possibility space
Worksheet 3 - Work out the Probability from a Frequency Table
Gemma carries out a survey one morning.
She writes down the colours of cars passing her house. Here are her results:
Red Blue Green Black White Other
43 32 19 14 26 16
(a) How many cars are there in Gemma’s survey?
(b) Estimate the probability the next care that passes Gemma’s house is:
(i) red (ii) blue (iii) black.
(c) There are 300 cars in a car park near Gemma’s house.
How many of these cars would you expect to be:
(i) red (ii) blue (iii) black?
Jamie is practising ten-pin bowling.
He keeps a record of the number of pins he knocks down on each turn.
Pins down 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
Frequency 7 2 3 8 5 11 14 10 12 5 3
Estimate the probability that on his next turn Jamie scores:
(a) 6 (b) 10 (c) 4 or less (d) more than 7
Ms Abela keeps a record of the number of students absent from her class each day for one
term. Here are her results.
Number of students absent 0 1 2 3 4 5
Frequency 9 10 21 15 3 2
(a) How many days are there in a term?
(b) What is the probability that on a day chosen at random there are:
(i) no students absent;
(ii) two students absent;
(iii) three or more students absent?
Worksheet 4 – Probability Revision
