4.11 Formal conditional probability and independenceIB Maths: Analysis and Approaches HL: Subtopic test
10 questions, 27 marks
IB Maths: Analysis and Approaches HL
4.11 Formal conditional probability and independence
Total 27 marks
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- 1Events and are such that , and .(a)Find .[1 mark]
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(b)Find .[1 mark]- A
- B
- C
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(c)Determine whether and are independent. Justify your answer.[2 marks]Total for question 1: 4 marks
- 2In a large school, 60% of students study Spanish. 18% of all students study both Spanish and music, and 12% of all students study music but not Spanish. A student is chosen at random. Let be the event that the student studies Spanish and the event that the student studies music.(a)Find the probability that the student studies music, given that the student studies Spanish.[1 mark]
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(b)Find .[1 mark]- A
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(c)Show that the events and are independent.[2 marks]Total for question 2: 4 marks
- 3On any working day, the probability that it rains in the morning is 0.35. If it rains in the morning, the probability that Kofi is late for work is 0.6. If it does not rain in the morning, the probability that Kofi is late for work is 0.2. Let be the event that it rains in the morning and the event that Kofi is late.(a)Find .[3 marks](b)On a particular day Kofi is late for work. Find the probability that it rained that morning, and hence explain whether the events and are independent.[4 marks]
Total for question 3: 7 marks
- 4In a survey of 200 students, 80 play tennis and 120 travel to school by bus. Let be the event that a randomly chosen student plays tennis and the event that the student travels to school by bus. Let be the number of students who both play tennis and travel to school by bus.(a)(i) Show that .[6 marks]
(ii) Find the value of for which and would be independent, and the value of in this case.
(iii) Write down the value of for which and would be mutually exclusive, and explain why and could not then be independent.(b)In fact .[6 marks]
(i) Find and .
(ii) Hence state, with a reason, whether and are independent, and interpret your answer in context.
(iii) Find the probability that a student who does not play tennis travels to school by bus.Total for question 4: 12 marks
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