• There are only 3 red counters and 5 yellow counters in a
bag.
• Jude takes at random 3 counters from the bag.
• Work out the probability that he takes exactly one red
counter.
• Ray has nine cards numbered 1 to 9
• 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9
• Ray takes at random three of these cards.
• He works out the sum of the numbers on the three
cards and records the result.
• Work out the probability that the result is an even
number.
• Pat throws a fair coin n times.
• Find an expression, in terms of n, for the probability that
Pat gets at least 1 head and at least 1 tail.
• There are 4 red counters and x blue counters in a bag.
• 2 counters are removed from the bag at random.
• The probability that both the counters taken are blue is
1/3
• Work out the value of x.
• There are some red counters and some white counters
in a bag.
• At the start, 7 of the counters are red, the rest of the
counters are white.
• Joshua takes at random a counter from the bag.
• He does not put the counter back in the bag.
• Joshua then takes at random another counter from the
bag.
• The probability that the first counter Joshua takes is
white and the second counter Joshua takes is red is
21/80
• Work out the number of white counters in the bag at the
start.
• There are y black socks and 5 white socks in a drawer.
• Simon takes at random two socks from the drawer.
• The probability that simon takes one white sock and one
black sock is 6/11
(a)Show that 3y2 – 28y + 60 = 0
(b)Find the probability that simon take two black socks.
• There are only green pens and blue pens in a box.
• There are three more blue pens than green pens in the
box.
• There are more than 12 pens in a box.
• Jack is going to take at random two pens from the box.
• The probability that jack take two pens of the same
colour is 27/55
• Work out the number of green pens in the box.
• There are 10 pens in a box.
• There are x red pens in the box.
• All the other pens are blue.
• Elliot takes at random two pens from the box.
• Find an expression, in terms of x, for the probability that
jack takes one pen of each colour.
• Give your answer in its simplest form.
• There are only r red counters and g green counters in a
bag.
• A counter is taken at random from the bag.
• The probability that the counter is green is 3/7
• The counter is put back in the bag.
• 2 more red counters and 3 more green counters are put
in the bag.
• A counter is taken at random from the bag.
• The probability that the counter is green is 6/13
• Find the number of red counters and the number of
green counters that were in the bag originally.
• Sajid has n counters.
• Each counter has one red face and one green face.
• Sajid spreads all the counters out on a table and sees
that the number of counters showing a red face is 5
• Sajid then picks at random one of the counters and
turns the counter over.
• He then picks at random a second counter and turns the
counter over.
• The probability that there are still 5 counters showing a
red face is 19/32
• Work out the value of x.
• A bowl contains n pieces of fruit.
• Of these, 4 are oranges and the rest are apples.
• Two pieces of fruit are going to be taken at random from
the bowl.
• The probability that the bowl will then contain (n-6)
apples is 1/3.
• Work out the value of n.
• In a village,
• if it rains on one day, the probability that it will rain on
the next day is 0.8
• if it does not rain on one day, the probability that it will
rain on the next day is 0.6
• A weather forecaster says,
• “There is a 70% chance that it will rain in the village on
Monday.”
• Work out an estimate for the probability that it will rain
in the village on Wednesday.
• A first aid test has two parts, a theory test and a
practical test.
• The probability of passing the theory test is 0.75
• The probability of passing only one of the two parts is
0.36
• The two events are independent.
• Work out the probability of passing the practical test.
• There are only blue counters, red counters and green
counters in a box.
• The probability that a counter taken at random from the
box will be blue is 0.4
• The ratio of the number of red counters to the number
of green counters is 7 : 8
• Sameena takes at random a counter from the box.
• She records its colour and puts the counter back in the
box.
• Sameena does this a total of 50 times.
• Work out an estimate for the number of times she takes
a green counter.
• There are only blue pens and red pens in a box.
• The number of blue pens is four times the number of
red pens.
• Rita takes at random one pen from the box.
• She records the colour of the pen and then replaces it in
the box.
• Rita does this n times, where n 2
• Write down an expression, in terms of n, for the
probability that Rita gets a blue pen at least once and a
red pen at least once.