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1 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.
(a) Find the number of members using only the tennis courts.
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(b) Find the number of members using the swimming pool.
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(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.
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(d) Find .
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[Total: 5]
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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?
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(b) How many students study exactly two subjects?
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(c) Two students are chosen at random from those who study Drama.
Calculate the probability that they both also study Music.
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(d) In the Venn diagram above, shade . [1]
[Total: 6]
3 The Venn diagram below shows information about the number of gardeners who grow melons (M), potatoes
(P) and carrots (C).
(a) A gardener is chosen at random from the gardeners who grow melons.
Find the probability that this gardener does not grow carrots.
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(b) Find .
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[Total: 3]
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The probability that the school bus is late is .
If the school bus is late, the probability that Seb travels on the bus is .
If the school bus is on time, the probability that Seb travels on the bus is .
Find the probability that Seb travels on the bus.
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[Total: 3]
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On any Saturday, the probability that Arun plays football is .
On any Saturday, the probability that Bob plays football is .
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(a) (i) Complete the tree diagram.
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(ii) Calculate the probability that, one Saturday, Arun and Bob both play football.
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(iii) Calculate the probability that, one Saturday, either Arun plays football or Bob plays football,
but not both.
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(b) Calculate the probability that Bob plays football for 2 of the next 3 Saturdays.
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(c) When Arun plays football, the probability that he scores the winning goal is .
Calculate the probability that Arun scores the winning goal one Saturday.
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[Total: 12]
6 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
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[Total: 3]
7 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.
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(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 .
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(iii) Solve by factorisation .
r = .............................. or r = .............................. [3]
(iv) Find the probability that Benoit does not cycle to school.
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[Total: 9]
8 Tanya plants some seeds.
The probability that a seed will produce flowers is 0.8 .
When a seed produces flowers, the probability that the flowers are red is 0.6 and the probability that the
flowers are yellow is 0.3 .
(a) Tanya has a seed that produces flowers.
Find the probability that the flowers are not red and not yellow.
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(b) (i) Complete the tree diagram.
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(ii) Find the probability that a seed chosen at random produces red flowers.
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(iii) Tanya chooses a seed at random.
Find the probability that this seed does not produce red flowers and does not produce yellow
flowers.
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(c) Two of the seeds are chosen at random.
Find the probability that one produces flowers and one does not produce flowers.
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[Total: 11]
9 A bag contains blue, red, yellow and green balls only.
A ball is taken from the bag at random.
The table shows some information about the probabilities.
Colour Blue Red Yellow Green
Probability 0.15 0.2 0.43
(a) Complete the table.
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(b) Abdul takes a ball at random and replaces it in the bag.
He does this 200 times.
Find how many times he expects to take a red ball.
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[Total: 3]
10 The Venn diagram shows the number of students in a group of 50 students who wear glasses (G), who wear
trainers (T) and who have a mobile phone (M).
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G
T
0 2 3
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19 14
1
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(a) Use set notation to describe the region that contains only one student.
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(b) Find .
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(c) One student is picked at random from the 50 students.
Find the probability that this student wears trainers but does not wear glasses.
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(d) Two students are picked at random from those wearing trainers.
Find the probability that both students have mobile phones.
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[Total: 6]