Probability ToolkitEdexcel IGCSE Maths: Subtopic test
10 questions, 26 marks
Edexcel IGCSE Maths
Probability Toolkit
Total 26 marks
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- 1A bag contains 5 red counters, 3 blue counters and 2 green counters. A counter is drawn at random.(a)What is the probability that the counter drawn is red?[1 mark]
- A
- B
- C
- D
(b)What is the probability that the counter drawn is not blue?[1 mark]- A
- B
- C
- D
(c)What is the probability that the counter drawn is red or green?[1 mark]- A
- B
- C
- D
Total for question 1: 3 marks
- 2A fair coin is tossed and a fair 4-sided spinner labelled 1, 2, 3, 4 is spun.(a)List the sample space of all possible outcomes, and find the probability of getting a head and an even number.[2 marks](b)Find the probability of getting a tail and a number greater than 2.[2 marks]
Total for question 2: 4 marks
- 3The probability that a machine produces a faulty item is 0.08. The machine produces 500 items in a day.(a)Find the expected number of faulty items produced in a day.[3 marks](b)Find the probability that an item is not faulty, and hence the expected number of non-faulty items produced in a day.[3 marks]
Total for question 3: 6 marks
- 4In a class of 30 students, 18 study French, 15 study Spanish, and 8 study both French and Spanish.(a)Find the number of students who study only French, only Spanish, and neither language.[4 marks](b)Find the probability that a randomly selected student studies exactly one of the two languages.[4 marks](c)Find the probability that a randomly selected student studies French, Spanish, or both, by first working out the number of students in each region of a Venn diagram (French only, Spanish only, both) and adding them. Show that this matches the total found by adding the individual probabilities and subtracting the overlap once.[5 marks]
Total for question 4: 13 marks
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