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1 The probability of picking a red sweet from a bag is 0.05 .
Find the probability of not picking a red sweet.
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[Total: 1]
2 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.
•
of the students who travel by bus are in Year 1.
(a) Complete the table.
Walk Cycle Bus Total
Year 1
Year 2
Total 120
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(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]
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3 The probability that Jane wins a game is
Find the probability that Jane does not win the game.
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[Total: 1]
4 The probability that a train is late is 0.15 .
Write down the probability that the train is not late.
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[Total: 1]
Bag A Bag B
Bag A contains 2 black marbles and 3 white marbles.
Bag B contains 5 black marbles and 8 white marbles.
(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]
6 20 students choose their favourite science subject.
The results are shown in the bar chart.
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10
8
Frequency
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0
Biology Chemistry Physics
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(a) Work out how many more students choose biology than physics.
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(b) Write down the fraction of students whose favourite science subject is chemistry.
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(c) One of the 20 students is picked at random.
Write down the probability that this student did not choose biology.
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(d) Only one of the averages, median, mode and mean can be found for these results.
(i) Write down the average that can be found.
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(ii) Find this average for these results.
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(iii) Explain why the range cannot be found.
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[Total: 7]
7 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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5
(c) a prime number,
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(d) a number less than 6.
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[Total: 4]
8 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,
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(b) Matt does not take a blue ball.
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[Total: 2]
9 Rui has a bag containing 5 black pens, 8 red pens and 3 blue pens only.
He takes a pen out of the bag at random.
Draw an arrow (↓) on the probability scale to show the probability that Rui takes
(a) a red pen,
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(b) a red pen or a blue pen.
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[Total: 2]
10 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]
11 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.
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(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]
12 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.
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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]
13 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]
14 Mario tests new cars.
The probability that a car is faulty is 0.04 .
(a) Find the probability that a car is not faulty.
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(b) In one week Mario tests 850 cars.
Find the number of cars that are expected to be faulty.
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[Total: 3]
15 A bag contains 5 red balls, 4 blue balls and 3 green balls.
(a) Megan picks a ball at random.
Write down the probability that the ball is red or blue.
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(b) Megan replaces the ball.
She picks a ball at random, notes the colour and replaces the ball.
She repeats this 60 times.
Calculate the number of times the ball is expected to be red or blue.
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[Total: 2]
16 The table shows the number of items sold to each of 60 customers in a shop.
Number of items Frequency
sold
0 3
1 6
2 12
3 8
4 14
5 10
6 3
7 4
(a) Find the range.
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(b) Calculate the mean.
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(c) Find the probability that a customer picked at random buys more than 4 items.
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[Total: 6]
17 A 4-sided spinner is numbered 1, 2, 3 and 4.
The table shows the probability of the spinner landing on 1, 2 and 4.
Number 1 2 3 4
Probability 0.27 0.18 0.32
Complete the table.
[2]
[Total: 2]
18 Kim has a 6-sided spinner numbered 1 to 6.
She spins it 63 times and her scores are shown in the table.
Score on spinner 1 2 3 4 5 6
Frequency 12 7 15 11 8 10
(a) Find the relative frequency of scoring a 5 with this spinner.
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(b) Work out the mean score.
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[Total: 4]
19 140 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]
20 = {x : x is a natural number 16}
(a) Write down all the square numbers in the universal set, .
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(b) Write down the six prime numbers in the universal set, .
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(c) M = {x : x is a multiple of 3}
F = {x : x is a factor of 15}
(i) Complete the Venn diagram to show the elements of these sets.
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(ii) Write down all the odd numbers that are not in set M and not in set F.
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(iii) Find .
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(iv) A number is chosen at random from the universal set, .
Find the probability that this number is in set F.
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[Total: 9]
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21 At a festival, 380 people out of 500 people questioned say that they are camping.
There are 55 300 people at the festival.
Calculate an estimate of the total number of people camping at the festival.
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[Total: 2]
22 6
6 7 5
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]
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23 The probability that Shalini is late for school on any day is .
(a) Complete the tree diagram for Monday and Tuesday.
Monday Tuesday
Late
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Late
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Not late
Late
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Not late
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Not late
[2]
(b) Calculate the probability that Shalini is late on Monday but is not late on Tuesday.
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[Total: 4]