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V E N N D I A G R A M
The diagram shows 11 cards.
(a) One of these cards is chosen at random.
Write down the probability that the letter on the card is not A.
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(b) A card is chosen at random from these 11 cards and then replaced.
A second card is then chosen at random.
Find the probability that exactly one card has the letter N.
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[Total: 4]
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E M
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50 students are asked if they like English (E) and if they like mathematics (M).
3 say they do not like English and do not like mathematics.
33 say they like English.
42 say they like mathematics.
(a) Complete the Venn diagram. [2]
(b) A student is chosen at random.
Find the probability that this student likes English and likes mathematics.
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(c) Two students are chosen at random.
Find the probability that they both like mathematics.
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(d) Two students who like English are chosen at random.
Find the probability that they both also like mathematics.
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[Total: 7]
3 The time, t minutes, taken by each of 80 people to travel to work is recorded.
The table shows information about these times.
Time
(t minutes)
Frequency 3 7 18 28 24
(a) One of these 80 people is chosen at random.
Find the probability that this person took longer than 10 minutes to travel to work.
Give your answer as a fraction in its simplest form.
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(b) Two people are chosen at random from those taking 20 minutes or less to travel to work.
Calculate the probability that one of these people took 5 minutes or less and the other took more than
5 minutes.
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[Total: 5]
4 A football team washes its shirts.
There are 5 red, 3 blue and 6 green shirts.
One shirt is taken from the washing machine at random.
Find the probability that it is
(a) red,
Answer(a) ................................................... [1]
(b) blue or green,
Answer(b) ................................................... [1]
(c) white.
Answer(c) ................................................... [1]
[Total: 3]
5 The table shows the average monthly temperature (°C) for Fairbanks, Alaska.
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Month Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
Temperature
(°C)
(a) Find
(i) the difference between the highest and the lowest temperatures,
Answer(a)(i) .........................................°C [1]
(ii) the median.
Answer(a)(ii) .........................................°C [2]
(b) A month is chosen at random from the table.
Find the probability that its average temperature is below zero.
Answer(b) ................................................... [1]
[Total: 4]
6 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,
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(b) not white.
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[Total: 2]
7 Celine buys a bag of 24 tulip bulbs.
There are 8 red bulbs and 5 white bulbs.
All of the other bulbs are yellow.
Celine chooses a bulb at random from the bag.
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(a) Write down the probability that the bulb is red or white.
Answer(a) ................................................... [1]
(b) Write down the probability that the bulb is yellow.
Answer(b) ................................................... [1]
[Total: 2]
8 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,
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(b) not white.
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[Total: 2]
9 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,
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(b) not white.
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[Total: 2]
10 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,
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(b) green or red,
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(c) yellow.
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[Total: 3]
11 A bag contains 20 bulbs.
8 are yellow, 5 are red, 4 are white and 3 are pink.
Sam takes one bulb at random.
Find the probability that the bulb he takes is
(a) white,
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(b) blue,
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(c) not pink.
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[Total: 3]
12 The table gives some information about the numbers of visitors at a leisure centre one day.
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.
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(c) Write down the fraction of visitors that are adults.
Give your answer in its lowest terms.
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(d) Write the ratio number of males : number of females.
Give your answer in its simplest form.
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(e) One of these visitors is selected at random.
Find the probability that this visitor is a male child.
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[Total: 7]
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13 Sushila has a bag that contains 10 red balls and 8 blue balls.
She takes one ball at random from the bag.
Find the probability that she takes a red ball.
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[Total: 1]
14 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.
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[Total: 7]
15 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.
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(a) Complete the bar chart. [3]
(b) Find how many more adult tickets were sold than child tickets.
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(c) Write down the modal type of ticket.
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(d) One of these 40 people is chosen at random.
Find the probability that this person is a child.
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[Total: 6]
16 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?
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(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.
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(d) One of these students is chosen at random.
Work out the probability that this student
(i) is taught by Mr House,
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(ii) is not taught by either Mr House or Miss Patel.
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(e) This information is also to be shown in a pie chart.
Work out the sector angle for Miss Patel.
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[Total: 11]
17 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.
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[Total: 1]
18 Paul has a set of 8 cards, each with a number written on it.
The numbers on the cards are 1, 1, 2, 3, 3, 3, 4, 5.
One card is taken at random.
Write down the probability that the number on the card is
(a) 1,
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(b) an odd number,
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(c) a prime number,
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(d) a number less than 6.
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[Total: 4]
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19 Soraya makes 30 flags.
11 flags are pink, 7 are yellow, 5 are blue, 4 are silver and 3 are green.
Soraya takes a flag at random.
Find the probability that the flag she takes is
(a) pink,
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(b) not blue,
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(c) red.
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[Total: 3]
20 The favourite sport of each of 135 boys is recorded in the table.
Favourite sport Frequency Pie chart sector angle
Soccer 54 144°
Hockey 45
Rugby 27
Other 9
(a) Complete the table.
[2]
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(b) Complete the pie chart to show these results.
The sector for soccer has been drawn for you.
Soccer
[2]
(c) One of these boys is picked at random.
Find the probability that soccer is his favourite sport.
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[Total: 5]
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Bag A Bag B
Bag A contains 2 black marbles and 3 white marbles.
Bag B contains 5 black marbles and 8 white marbles.
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(a) Write down the probability that a marble picked at random from bag A is black.
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(b) Toby says,
‘You are more likely to pick a black marble at random from bag B than from bag A
because bag B has more black marbles.’
Is Toby correct?
Give a reason for your answer.
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(c) Toby adds some marbles to bag B.
The probability of picking a black marble at random from either bag is now the same.
Work out the smallest number of black marbles and white marbles he adds to bag B.
Black ...................................................
White ................................................... [2]
[Total: 5]
22 Mahika records how 120 students from Year 1 and Year 2 travel to school.
Each student walks, cycles or travels by bus.
• 48 students are in Year 1.
• 77 students walk.
• 5 students in Year 2 cycle.
• 36 students travel by bus.
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of the students who travel by bus are in Year 1.
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(a) Complete the table.
Walk Cycle Bus Total
Year 1
Year 2
Total 120
[3]
(b) One of the 120 students is chosen at random.
Work out the probability that this student does not travel by bus to school.
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[Total: 5]
23 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]
24 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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25 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]
26 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.
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(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]
27 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.
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(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]
28 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,
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(b) less than 60 mm,
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(c) 70 mm.
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[Total: 4]
29 The number of examinations that each of 196 candidates takes is recorded in the table.
Number of examinations 5 6 7 8
Number of candidates 27 42 63 64
(a) Write down the range.
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(b) Find the median.
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(c) Calculate the mean.
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(d) A candidate is selected at random.
Find the probability that the candidate takes fewer than 8 examinations.
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[Total: 7]
30 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
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(a) Complete the table. [3]
(b) Find the probability that
(i) a girl, chosen at random, studies Spanish,
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(ii) a boy, chosen at random, studies French or Italian,
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(iii) a student, chosen at random, does not study German.
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[Total: 6]
31 The number of attempts at a driving test and the number of driving lessons for each of 17 people are shown
in the scatter diagram.
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(a) What type of correlation is shown in the scatter diagram?
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(b) One of these people is picked at random.
Work out the probability that this person had 5 or more attempts.
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(c) Draw a line of best fit on the scatter diagram. [1]
(d) Another person had 15 lessons.
Estimate their number of attempts.
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[Total: 4]
32 (a) Kyung records the number of people in each of 24 cars on Wednesday.
His results are shown below.
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1 3 6 1 2 2 4 5
3 4 1 5 3 2 4 1
1 1 2 4 4 1 2 1
(i) Complete the frequency table.
You may use the tally column to help you.
Number in a car Tally Frequency
[2]
(ii) Write down the mode.
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(iii) Work out the range.
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(iv) Work out the median.
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(v) Calculate the mean.
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(vi) One of these cars is chosen at random.
Find the probability that the number of people in this car is 4.
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(b) Kyung also records the number of people in each of 24 cars on Saturday.
The table shows the results.
Number in a car 1 2 3 4 5 6
Frequency 1 2 5 13 2 1
On the grid, complete the bar chart to show these results.
[2]
(c) Write down one comparison between the frequency tables in part(a)(i) and part(b).
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[Total: 12]
33 40 children were asked if they have a computer or a phone or both.
The Venn diagram shows the results.
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(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.
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(b) Complete the Venn diagram.
[2]
[Total: 3]
34 The diagram shows a fair 8-sided spinner.
The numbers on the spinner are 3, 4, 4, 7, 7, 7, 8 and 9.
(a) The spinner is spun once.
Write down the probability that the spinner lands on
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(i) the number 7,
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(ii) a number greater than 2.
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(b) The spinner is spun 160 times.
Work out the expected number of times the spinner lands on the number 7.
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[Total: 3]
35 The Venn diagram shows information about the number of students in a class who like apples (A) and
bananas (B).
(a) Work out the number of students in the class.
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(b) Work out the number of students who like bananas.
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(c) Work out .
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(d) How many more students like apples than like bananas?
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(e) One of the students is chosen at random.
Find the probability that this student does not like apples and does not like bananas.
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[Total: 5]
36 = {x : x is a natural number 15}
F = {x : x is a factor of 12}
O = {x : x is an odd number}
(a) Complete the Venn diagram to show the elements of these sets.
[2]
(b) Write down one number that is in set O, but not in set F.
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(c) Find .
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(d) A number is chosen at random from .
Work out the probability that this number is in set O.
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[Total: 5]
37 = {1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12}
E = {x: x is an even number}
M = {x: x is a multiple of 3}
E M
(a) Complete the Venn diagram. [2]
(b) Write down .
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(c) A number is chosen at random from the universal set .
Write down the probability that the number is in the set .
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[Total: 5]
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38 6 5
6 7
5
3 5
8
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The diagram shows a fair 9-sided spinner.
The numbers on the spinner are 2, 3, 5, 5, 5, 6, 6, 7 and 8.
(a) The spinner is spun once.
Write down the probability that the spinner lands on
(i) the number 8,
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(ii) a number less than 7.
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(b) The spinner is spun 135 times.
Work out the expected number of times the spinner lands on the number 6.
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[Total: 3]
39 You may use this Venn diagram to help you answer the questions.
F S
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In a class of 30 students, 25 study French (F), 18 study Spanish (S).
One student does not study French or Spanish.
(a) Find the number of students who study French and Spanish.
Answer(a) ................................................... [2]
(b) One of the 30 students is chosen at random.
Find the probability that this student studies French but not Spanish.
Answer(b) ................................................... [1]
[Total: 3]
40 140 students choose which subjects they want to study.
• 122 students choose biology (B).
• 55 students choose chemistry (C).
• 2 students do not choose biology and do not choose chemistry.
B C
(a) Complete the Venn diagram.
[2]
(b) One of these students is picked at random.
Find the probability that this student chooses biology and chemistry.
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[Total: 3]