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1 40 children were asked if they have a computer or a phone or both.

The Venn diagram shows the results.

(a) A child is chosen at random from the children who have a computer.

Write down the probability that this child also has a phone.

................................................... [1]

(b) Complete the Venn diagram.

[2]

[Total: 3]

2 80 students each record the name of their mathematics teacher.

The number of these students taught by Mr House and by Miss Patel are shown in the bar chart.
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(a) How many more students are taught by Miss Patel than by Mr House?

................................................... [1]

(b) 15 students are taught by Mr Smith.

Twice as many students are taught by Mrs Brown than by Mr Jones.

Use this information to complete the bar chart.

[4]

(c) Write down the mode.

................................................... [1]

(d) One of these students is chosen at random.

Work out the probability that this student

(i) is taught by Mr House,

................................................... [1]

(ii) is not taught by either Mr House or Miss Patel.

................................................... [2]
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(e) This information is also to be shown in a pie chart.

Work out the sector angle for Miss Patel.

................................................... [2]

[Total: 11]

3 On Monday, Main Street station sells 40 tickets.

There are four types of ticket; infant, child, adult and senior.
The bar chart shows the number of infant, child and adult tickets sold.

(a) Complete the bar chart.

[3]

(b) Find how many more adult tickets were sold than child tickets.

................................................... [1]

(c) Write down the modal type of ticket.

................................................... [1]
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(d) One of these 40 people is chosen at random.

Find the probability that this person is a child.

................................................... [1]

[Total: 6]

4 The test scores of 14 students are shown below.

21 21 23 26 25 21 22 20 21 23 23 27 24 21

(a) Find the range, mode, median and mean of the test scores.

Range = ...................................................

Mode = ...................................................

Median = ...................................................

Mean = ................................................... [6]

(b) A student is chosen at random.

Find the probability that this student has a test score of more than 24.

................................................... [1]

[Total: 7]

5 A box contains 22 coloured pencils.

6 pencils are pink, 9 pencils are blue and 7 pencils are yellow.

A pencil is taken at random from the box.

Write down the probability that this pencil is green.

................................................... [1]

[Total: 1]

6 The table gives some information about the numbers of visitors at a leisure centre one day.
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Adult Child Total

Male 144 240

Female 129 260

Total 225 275 500

(a) Complete the table.

[1]

(b) Work out how many more child visitors than adult visitors there are.

................................................... [1]

(c) Write down the fraction of visitors that are adults.

Give your answer in its lowest terms.

................................................... [2]

(d) Write the ratio number of males : number of females.

Give your answer in its simplest form.

.............................. : .............................. [2]

(e) One of these visitors is selected at random.

Find the probability that this visitor is a male child.

................................................... [1]

[Total: 7]
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Bag A contains 3 black balls and 2 white balls.

Bag B contains 1 black ball and 3 white balls.

A ball is taken at random from each bag.

(a) Show that a black ball is more likely to be taken from bag A than from bag B.

[1]

(b) Find the probability that the two balls have different colours.

................................................... [3]

[Total: 4]

8 A bag contains 6 green balls, 5 red balls and 3 blue balls only.
A ball is taken from the bag at random.

Find the probability that the ball is

(a) green,

................................................... [1]
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(b) green or red,

................................................... [1]

(c) yellow.

................................................... [1]

[Total: 3]

9 The 262 students at a college each study one of the languages shown in the table.

French German Spanish Italian Japanese Total

Boys 27 48 19 123

Girls 32 54 12

Total 53 30 262

(a) Complete the table.

[3]

(b) Find the probability that

(i) a girl, chosen at random, studies Spanish,

................................................... [1]

(ii) a boy, chosen at random, studies French or Italian,

................................................... [1]
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(iii) a student, chosen at random, does not study German.

................................................... [1]

[Total: 6]

10 The time taken for each of 120 students to complete a cooking challenge is shown in the table.

Time (t minutes)

Frequency 44 32 28 12 4

(a) Write down the modal time interval.

.................... .................... [1]

(b) Write down the interval containing the median time.

.................... .................... [1]

(c) Calculate an estimate of the mean time.

................................................... min [4]

(d) A student is chosen at random.

Find the probability that this student takes more than 40 minutes.

................................................... [1]

[Total: 7]
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11 Samira and Sonia each have a bag containing 20 sweets.

In each bag, there are 5 red, 6 green and 9 yellow sweets.

(a) Samira chooses one sweet at random from her bag.

Write down the probability that she chooses a yellow sweet.

................................................... [1]

(b) Sonia chooses two sweets at random, without replacement, from her bag.

(i) Show that the probability that she chooses two green sweets is .

[2]

(ii) Calculate the probability that the sweets she chooses are not both the same colour.

................................................... [4]

[Total: 7]

12 The frequency table shows information about the time, m minutes, that each of 160 people spend in a library.
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Time
(m minutes)

Frequency 3 39 43 55 11 9

(a) (i) Find the probability that one of these people, chosen at random, spends more than 100 minutes
in the library.

................................................... [1]

(ii) Calculate an estimate of the mean time spent in the library.

................................................... min [4]

(b) Complete the cumulative frequency table below.

Time
(m minutes)

Cumulative
3 42
frequency

[2]
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(c) On the grid, draw the cumulative frequency diagram.

[3]

(d) Use your cumulative frequency diagram to find

(i) the median,

................................................... min [1]

(ii) the interquartile range,

................................................... min [2]

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(iii) the 90th percentile,

................................................... min [2]

(iv) the number of people who spend more than 30 minutes in the library.

................................................... min [2]

[Total: 17]

13 The table shows the number of screws of different lengths in a box of 100 screws.

Length (mm) 20 40 50 60

Number of screws 18 36 24 22

A screw is chosen at random from the box.

Find the probability that the screw has length

(a) 50 mm,

................................................... [1]

(b) less than 60 mm,

................................................... [2]

(c) 70 mm.

................................................... [1]

[Total: 4]

14 A bag contains 5 black counters, 8 white counters, 6 green counters and 1 yellow counter.
A counter is taken from this bag at random.

Find the probability that this counter is

(a) white,

................................................... [1]
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(b) not white.

................................................... [1]

[Total: 2]

15 A bag contains 5 black counters, 8 white counters, 6 green counters and 1 yellow counter.
A counter is taken from this bag at random.

Find the probability that this counter is

(a) white,

................................................... [1]

(b) not white.

................................................... [1]

[Total: 2]

16 Hattie has a box of coloured pens.

She takes a pen at random from the box.
The probability that she takes a red pen is 0.4 .

(a) Work out the probability that she does not take a red pen.

................................................... [1]

(b) The box contains only blue, red and green pens.
There are 15 blue pens and 15 green pens.

Complete the table.

Colour of pen Blue Red Green

Number of pens 15 15

Probability 0.4

[2]
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[Total: 3]

17 Hattie has a box of coloured pens.

She takes a pen at random from the box.
The probability that she takes a red pen is 0.4 .

(a) Work out the probability that she does not take a red pen.

................................................... [1]

(b) The box contains only blue, red and green pens.
There are 15 blue pens and 15 green pens.

Complete the table.

Colour of pen Blue Red Green

Number of pens 15 15

Probability 0.4

[2]

[Total: 3]

18 Chico has a bag of sweets.

He takes a sweet from the bag at random.
The table shows the probabilities of taking each flavour of sweet.

Flavour Lemon Lime Strawberry Blackcurrant Orange

Probability 0.15 0.22 0.18 0.24

(a) Complete the table.

[2]

(b) Find the probability that the sweet is lemon or lime.

Answer(b) ................................................... [1]

[Total: 3]

19 Chico has a bag of sweets.

He takes a sweet from the bag at random.
The table shows the probabilities of taking each flavour of sweet.

Flavour Lemon Lime Strawberry Blackcurrant Orange

Probability 0.15 0.22 0.18 0.24

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(a) Complete the table.

[2]

(b) Find the probability that the sweet is lemon or lime.

Answer(b) ................................................... [1]

[Total: 3]

20 A bag contains 3 green balls, 4 red balls and 1 blue ball only.
Matt takes a ball from the bag at random.

Some probabilities are marked on the probability scale.

Write down the letter that shows the probability that

(a) Matt takes a red ball,

................................................... [1]

(b) Matt does not take a blue ball.

................................................... [1]

[Total: 2]

21 A bag contains 6 blue counters and 2 red counters only.

A counter is taken from the bag at random.

Draw an arrow (↓) on the probability scale to show the probability of taking

(a) a blue counter,

[1]
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(b) a yellow counter.

[1]

[Total: 2]

22 A bag contains green balls and red balls only.

A ball is taken at random from the bag.
The probability of taking a green ball is 0.38 .

Write down the probability of taking

(a) a red ball,

................................................... [1]

(b) a blue ball.

................................................... [1]

[Total: 2]

23 A box contains 3 blue pens, 4 red pens and 8 green pens only.
A pen is chosen at random from the box.

Find the probability that this pen is green.

................................................... [1]

[Total: 1]

24 A bag contains brown balls, white balls, black balls and purple balls only.
A ball is taken from this bag at random.
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Colour Brown White Black Purple

Probability 0.46 0.22 0.14

(a) Complete the table.

[2]

(b) Which colour is the most likely to be taken?

................................................... [1]

(c) There are 50 balls in this bag.

Work out the number of black balls.

................................................... [1]

[Total: 4]

25 Paul and Sammy take part in a race.

The probability that Paul wins the race is .

The probability that Sammy wins the race is 26%.

Who is more likely to win the race?

Give a reason for your answer.

Answer .........................................because ............................................................................................ [2]

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[Total: 2]

26 The probability that Andrei cycles to school is r.

(a) Write down, in terms of r, the probability that Andrei does not cycle to school.

................................................... [1]

(b) The probability that Benoit does not cycle to school is .

The probability that both Andrei and Benoit do not cycle to school is 0.4 .

(i) Complete the equation in terms of r.

( ................................................... ) × ( ................................................... ) = 0.4 [1]

(ii) Show that this equation simplifies to .

[3]

(iii) Solve by factorisation .

r = .............................. or r = .............................. [3]

(iv) Find the probability that Benoit does not cycle to school.

................................................... [1]
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[Total: 9]

27 A bag contains green counters and black counters only.

A counter is taken from the bag at random.
The probability of taking a green counter is 0.64 .

Work out the probability of taking a black counter.

................................................... [1]

[Total: 1]

28 Ethan has a box of toys.

He takes a toy at random.

Toy Car Train Bus Other

Probability 0.2 0.45 0.08

Complete the table.

[2]

[Total: 2]

29 In a group of students the probability that a student is left-handed is 0.28 .

A student is chosen at random from the group.

Find the probability that this student is not left-handed.

................................................... [1]

[Total: 1]

30 A bag contains 5 black counters, 8 white counters, 6 green counters and 1 yellow counter.
A counter is taken from this bag at random.

Find the probability that this counter is

(a) white,

................................................... [1]
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(b) not white.

................................................... [1]

[Total: 2]

31 The probability that a tin of paint is dented is 0.07 .

Out of 3000 tins of paint, how many would you expect to be dented?

Answer ................................................... [2]

[Total: 2]

32 A random sample of 200 families was taken from the families in a city.
The number of children in each family was recorded.
The results are shown in the table below.

Number of children in
0 1 2 3 4 5 or more
a family

Number of families 25 41 73 42 13 6

(a) Find the relative frequency of families with 2 children.

Answer(a) ................................................... [1]

(b) There are 5400 families in the city.

Find an estimate of the number of families with 2 children.

Answer(b) ................................................... [2]

[Total: 3]

33 A bag contains different coloured counters.

Sasha takes a counter at random, records its colour, and replaces it.
She does this 90 times and records her results in the pie chart below.
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Green

Red

136°
148°

Blue

(a) Write down the relative frequency of Sasha choosing a red counter.

Answer(a) ................................................... [1]

(b) Work out the number of times a green counter is chosen.

Answer(b) ................................................... [3]

[Total: 4]

34 The probability that it will rain on any day is .

Calculate an estimate of the number of days it will rain in a month with 30 days.

Answer ................................................... [1]

[Total: 1]
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Records show that of all mullet fish caught are underweight.
In one day, 168 mullet are caught.

Work out the expected number of mullet that are underweight.

................................................... [1]

[Total: 1]

36 David goes to college by bus.

On 6 mornings out of 45, the bus is late.
In one year David goes to college by bus 180 times.

Estimate how many mornings the bus is late in one year.

................................................... [2]

[Total: 2]

37 A cube has only one of its six faces painted yellow.

This cube is rolled 240 times.

Work out the expected number of times that it lands on the yellow face.

................................................... [1]

[Total: 1]
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38 In a survey of 50 visitors to a leisure centre, 18 used the gym.

One day, 1500 people visited the leisure centre.

Calculate an estimate for the number of people who used the gym on this day.

................................................... [2]

[Total: 2]

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The Venn diagram above shows information about the number of students who study Music (M), Drama (D)
and Geography (G).

(a) How many students study Music?

................................................... [1]

(b) How many students study exactly two subjects?

................................................... [1]

(c) Two students are chosen at random from those who study Drama.

Calculate the probability that they both also study Music.

................................................... [3]

(d) In the Venn diagram above, shade . [1]

[Total: 6]

40 One day, the number of members using the exercise machines (E), the swimming pool (S) and the tennis
courts (T) at a sports club is shown on the Venn diagram.
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(a) Find the number of members using only the tennis courts.

................................................... [1]

(b) Find the number of members using the swimming pool.

................................................... [1]

(c) A member using the swimming pool is chosen at random.

Find the probability that this member also uses the tennis courts and the exercise machines.

................................................... [2]

(d) Find .

................................................... [1]

[Total: 5]