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1 A bag contains brown balls, white balls, black balls and purple balls only.
A ball is taken from this bag at random.

Colour Brown White Black Purple

Probability 0.46 0.22 0.14

(a) Complete the table.

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(b) Which colour is the most likely to be taken?

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(c) There are 50 balls in this bag.

Work out the number of black balls.

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[Total: 4]

2 Mario tests new cars.

The probability that a car is faulty is 0.04 .

(a) Find the probability that a car is not faulty.

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(b) In one week Mario tests 850 cars.

Find the number of cars that are expected to be faulty.

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[Total: 3]

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The diagram shows a fair 9-sided spinner.

The numbers on the spinner are 2, 3, 5, 5, 5, 6, 6, 7 and 8.

(a) The spinner is spun once.

Write down the probability that the spinner lands on

(i) the number 8,

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(ii) a number less than 7.

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(b) The spinner is spun 135 times.

Work out the expected number of times the spinner lands on the number 6.

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[Total: 3]

4 A bag contains blue, red, yellow and green balls only.

A ball is taken from the bag at random.
The table shows some information about the probabilities.

Colour Blue Red Yellow Green

Probability 0.15 0.2 0.43

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(a) Complete the table.

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(b) Abdul takes a ball at random and replaces it in the bag.

He does this 200 times.

Find how many times he expects to take a red ball.

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[Total: 3]

5 A bag contains 5 red balls, 4 blue balls and 3 green balls.

(a) Megan picks a ball at random.

Write down the probability that the ball is red or blue.

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(b) Megan replaces the ball.

She picks a ball at random, notes the colour and replaces the ball.
She repeats this 60 times.

Calculate the number of times the ball is expected to be red or blue.

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[Total: 2]

6 Dominic asks 30 students in his class if they are right-handed or left-handed.

7 students are left-handed.

Work out the expected number of left-handed students in the whole school of 960 students.

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[Total: 2]
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7 At a festival, 380 people out of 500 people questioned say that they are camping.
There are 55 300 people at the festival.

Calculate an estimate of the total number of people camping at the festival.

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[Total: 2]

8 On any day, the probability that Marcus will get a seat on the school bus is 0.93 .

(a) Write down the probability that he will not get a seat on the school bus today.

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(b) There are 200 school days in a year.

Work out the expected number of days in a year that Marcus will not get a seat.

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[Total: 2]

9 Sofia has a bag containing 8 blue beads and 7 red beads only.
She takes one bead out of the bag at random and replaces it.
She does this 90 times.

Find the number of times she expects to take a red bead.

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[Total: 2]
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10 Marco watches 25 boats enter a port, of which 9 have a mast.

There are a total of 200 boats in the port.

Calculate an estimate of the number of boats in the port that have a mast.

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[Total: 2]

11 The probability that a sweet made in a factory is the wrong shape is 0.0028 .
One day, the factory makes 25 000 sweets.

Calculate the number of sweets that are expected to be the wrong shape.

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[Total: 2]

12 In a survey of 50 visitors to a leisure centre, 18 used the gym.

One day, 1500 people visited the leisure centre.

Calculate an estimate for the number of people who used the gym on this day.

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[Total: 2]
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13 The probability that Kim wins a game is 0.72 .

In one year Kim will play 225 games.

Work out an estimate of the number of games Kim will win.

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[Total: 2]

14 David goes to college by bus.

On 6 mornings out of 45, the bus is late.
In one year David goes to college by bus 180 times.

Estimate how many mornings the bus is late in one year.

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[Total: 2]

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The probability that Jane wins a game is .
Jane plays this game 50 times.

Find the number of times she is expected to win the game.

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[Total: 1]

16 A shop gives each of 1000 people a voucher.

28 people use their voucher.
The shop now gives each of 16 500 people a voucher.

Calculate how many of these 16 500 people are expected to use their voucher.

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[Total: 1]
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17 The probability that Tommy has his calculator for his mathematics lesson is 0.4 .
There are 120 mathematics lessons in one year.

Work out an estimate of the number of mathematics lessons in one year that Tommy has his calculator.

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[Total: 1]

18 A cube has only one of its six faces painted yellow.

This cube is rolled 240 times.

Work out the expected number of times that it lands on the yellow face.

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[Total: 1]

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Records show that of all mullet fish caught are underweight.
In one day, 168 mullet are caught.

Work out the expected number of mullet that are underweight.

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[Total: 1]