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Nov 2023 p53 q3
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Tim has two bags of marbles, A and B.

Bag A contains 8 white, 4 red and 3 yellow marbles.

Bag B contains 6 white, 7 red and 2 yellow marbles.

Tim also has an ordinary fair 6-sided dice. He rolls the dice. If he obtains a 1 or 2, he chooses two marbles at random from bag A, without replacement. If he obtains a 3, 4, 5 or 6, he chooses two marbles at random from bag B, without replacement.

Find the probability that the two marbles come from bag B given that one is white and one is red.

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Nov 2021 p53 q7
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Box A contains 6 red balls and 4 blue balls. Box B contains x red balls and 9 blue balls. A ball is chosen at random from box A and placed in box B. A ball is then chosen at random from box B.

(a) Complete the tree diagram below, giving the remaining four probabilities in terms of x.

(b) Show that the probability that both balls chosen are blue is \(\frac{4}{x+10}\).

It is given that the probability that both balls chosen are blue is \(\frac{1}{6}\).

(c) Find the probability, correct to 3 significant figures, that the ball chosen from box A is red given that the ball chosen from box B is red.

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Nov 2021 p52 q1
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Each of the 180 students at a college plays exactly one of the piano, the guitar, and the drums. The numbers of male and female students who play the piano, the guitar, and the drums are given in the following table.

PianoGuitarDrums
Male254411
Female423820

A student at the college is chosen at random.

Find the probability that the student is male given that the student plays the drums.

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Nov 2021 p51 q3
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For her bedtime drink, Suki has either chocolate, tea or milk with probabilities 0.45, 0.35 and 0.2 respectively. When she has chocolate, the probability that she has a biscuit is 0.3. When she has tea, the probability that she has a biscuit is 0.6. When she has milk, she never has a biscuit.

Find the probability that Suki has tea given that she does not have a biscuit.

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June 2021 p53 q7
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In the region of Arka, the total number of households in the three villages Reeta, Shan and Teber is 800. Each of the households was asked about the quality of their broadband service. Their responses are summarised in the following table.

VillageExcellentGoodPoor
Reeta7511832
Shan22317740
Teber126063

(i) Find the probability that a randomly chosen household is in Shan and has poor broadband service.

(ii) Find the probability that a randomly chosen household has good broadband service given that the household is in Shan.

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