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Statistics & Probability

The document contains various statistical problems and exercises related to frequency tables, probability, and data representation through diagrams. It includes questions about travel times, test scores, and probabilities of selecting colored cubes and counters. Additionally, it features scenarios involving games and spinners to calculate probabilities and outcomes.

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Statistics & Probability

The document contains various statistical problems and exercises related to frequency tables, probability, and data representation through diagrams. It includes questions about travel times, test scores, and probabilities of selecting colored cubes and counters. Additionally, it features scenarios involving games and spinners to calculate probabilities and outcomes.

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shreyavkotecha
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Statistics

1. The frequency table shows the time taken for 100 people to travel to an event.

(a) Find the percentage of people that travelled for more than 30 minutes to the
event

..................................…%
(b) Find the class interval that contains the median.

..................................… minutes
(c) Find an estimate for the mean time taken for people to travel to the event.

..................................… minutes
2. There are 20 children in Class A and 20 children in Class B. Each child completes a
test.

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3. Eleven students each take a physics test and a chemistry test.
Mike starts to draw this back-to-back stem-and-leaf diagram showing the marks from
the chemistry test.

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4. Nine students take a history exam and a geography exam.
Their marks out of 100 are:

5. The table gives some information about the distances jumped by a group of boys and
by a group of girls

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6. Twelve children in class Y estimate how long one minute lasts for.
They each shut their eyes and put their hand in the air when they think one minute
has passed.
The stem-and-leaf diagram shows the times, in seconds, for eleven of the children.

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Probability
1. Mia has a box that contains a large number of coloured cubes.
She picks a cube at random.
The probabilities of her picking a red, a blue or a green cube are shown in the
table.

2.

3. The counters in a bag are either red or blue or green or yellow. A counter is picked at
random from the bag. The table shows the probability of some of the outcomes.

Find the probability that the counter is red or yellow.

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4. Yuri and Chen are playing a game.
They each have four cards numbered 1 to 4

5. Ross posts a birthday card to Salvador and a birthday card to Pablo.


The probability tree shows the probabilities of each card arriving on time or late.

Work out the probability that both cards arrive on time.

……………………………

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6. Safia rolls a fair blue dice and a fair green dice.

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7. Chen and Hassan each play a game.
They can each either win or lose or draw the game.

8. Gabriella has two fair spinners. One spinner is blue and the other is red.
She spins both spinners and adds the two results to give a total score.

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9. Rajiv has a fair 4-sided spinner with one section shaded.
He also has a fair 5-sided spinner with two sections shaded.

(b) Find the probability that both spinners land on an unshaded section.

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10. A bag contains some counters. Each counter is numbered 1, 2, 3 or 4
A counter is taken at random from the bag.
The table shows some of the probabilities of taking a counter with each number.

11. Pierre spins this fair spinner twice.

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12. Chen has two fair spinners.

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13. Here are some pairs of events.

14. Rajiv has a bag containing only red counters and blue counters.
Safia has a different bag containing only red counters and blue counters.
They each take one counter at random from their bag.

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