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1. Jos travels to school on a bus. On any day, the probability that Jos will miss the bus is .
3
7
If he misses his bus, the probability that he will be late for school is .
8
3
If he does not miss his bus, the probability that he will be late is .
8
Let E be the event he misses his bus and F the event he is late for school.
The information above is shown on the following tree diagram.

(a) Find

(i) P(E F);

(ii) P(F).
(4)

(b) Find the probability that

(i) Jos misses his bus and is not late for school;

(ii) Jos missed his bus, given that he is late for school.
(5)

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 The cost for each day that Jos catches the bus is 3 euros. Jos goes to school on Monday and
Tuesday.

(c) Copy and complete the probability distribution table.

X (cost in euros) 0 3 6
1
P (X)
9
(3)

(d) Find the expected cost for Jos for both days.
(2)
(Total 14 marks)

2. The diagram below shows the probabilities for events A and B, with P(A) = p.

(a) Write down the value of p.

(1)

(b) Find P(B).

(3)

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 (c) Find P(A | B).
(3)
(Total 7 marks)

3. Two standard six-sided dice are tossed. A diagram representing the sample space is shown
below.

Score on second die

1 2 3 4 5 6
1
2
Score on first die 3
4
5
6

Let X be the sum of the scores on the two dice.

(a) Find

(i) P(X = 6);

(ii) P(X > 6);

(iii) P(X = 7 | X > 5).

(6)

(b) Elena plays a game where she tosses two dice.

If the sum is 6, she wins 3 points.

If the sum is greater than 6, she wins 1 point.
If the sum is less than 6, she loses k points.

Find the value of k for which Elenas expected number of points is zero.
(7)
(Total 13 marks)

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4. The eye colour of 97 students is recorded in the chart below.

Brown Blue Green

Male 21 16 9
Female 19 19 13

One student is selected at random.

(a) Write down the probability that the student is a male.

(b) Write down the probability that the student has green eyes, given that the student is a
female.

(c) Find the probability that the student has green eyes or is male.
(Total 6 marks)

5. A pair of fair dice is thrown.

(a) Copy and complete the tree diagram below, which shows the possible outcomes.

(3)

Let E be the event that exactly one four occurs when the pair of dice is thrown.

(b) Calculate P(E).

(3)

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 The pair of dice is now thrown five times.

(c) Calculate the probability that event E occurs exactly three times in the five throws.
(3)

(d) Calculate the probability that event E occurs at least three times in the five throws.
(3)
(Total 12 marks)

6. Two ordinary, 6-sided dice are rolled and the total score is noted.

(a) Complete the tree diagram by entering probabilities and listing outcomes.

Outcomes
6 ...............
.......
6
.......
....... not 6 ...............

6 ...............
....... .......
not 6

....... not 6 ...............

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 (b) Find the probability of getting one or more sixes.

Working:

Answer:

(b) ...............................................................

(Total 4 marks)

7. A bag contains four apples (A) and six bananas (B). A fruit is taken from the bag and eaten.
Then a second fruit is taken and eaten.

(a) Complete the tree diagram below by writing probabilities in the spaces provided.

(3)

(b) Find the probability that one of each type of fruit was eaten.
(3)
(Total 6 marks)

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