StudentAidProbability & Statistics 1 — Variant 2
A Level Mathematics · 9709/52 · Feb/March 2024
Questions
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1
A bag contains 9 blue marbles and 3 red marbles. One marble is chosen at random from the bag. If this marble is blue, it is replaced back into the bag. If this marble is red, it is not returned to the bag. A second marble is now chosen at random from the bag.
1(a)
[1]
Find the probability that both the marbles chosen are red.
1(b)
[3]
Find the probability that the first marble chosen is blue given that the second marble chosen is red.
2
Sam is a member of a soccer club. She is practising scoring goals. The probability that Sam will score a goal on any attempt is , independently of all other attempts.
2(a)
[3]
Sam makes 10 attempts at scoring goals. Find the probability that Sam will score goals on fewer than 8 of these attempts.
2(b)
[2]
Find the probability that Sam's first successful attempt will be before her 5th attempt.
2(c)
[3]
Wei is a member of the same soccer club. He is also practising scoring goals. The probability that Wei will score a goal on any attempt is , independently of all other attempts. Wei is going to keep making attempts until he scores 3 goals. Find the probability that he scores his third goal on his 7th attempt.
4
A company sells small and large bags of rice. The masses of the small bags of rice are normally distributed with mean kg and standard deviation kg.
4(a)
[4]
In a random sample of 500 of these small bags of rice, how many would you expect to have a mass greater than kg? The masses of the large bags of rice are normally distributed with mean kg and standard deviation kg. of these large bags of rice have a mass less than kg.
4(b)
[3]
Find the value of . A random sample of 80 large bags of rice is chosen.
4(c)
[5]
Use a suitable approximation to find the probability that fewer than 22 of these large bags of rice have a mass less than kg.
6
A new village social club has 10 members of whom 6 are men and 4 are women. The club committee will consist of 5 members.
6(a)
[4]
In how many ways can the committee of 5 members be chosen if it must include at least 2 men and at least 1 woman? The 10 members of the club stand in a line for a photograph.
6(b)
[2]
How many different arrangements are there of the 10 members if all the men stand together and all the women stand together? For a second photograph, the members stand in two rows, with 6 on the back row and 4 on the front row. Olly and his sister Petra are two of the members of the club.
6(c)
[4]
How many different arrangements are there of the 10 members in which Olly and Petra stand next to each other on the front row?
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