International A Level Edexcel Maths 1 hour 9 questions

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1 (a) A bag contains 12 red marbles, 7 green marbles and 1 black marble. Two marbles are
drawn from the bag without replacement.

Draw a tree diagram to represent this experiment.

(4 marks)

(b) Find the probability that the two marbles drawn are not both the same colour.

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2 (a) Three events,A ,B and C , are such that A and B are independent B and C and are
mutually exclusive. P( C ) = 0 . 55, P ( (A ∩ B ) ∪ (A ∩ C ) ) = 0 . 07 , and the following two
relations also hold:

8 P(A ) = 25 P( B )

P(A ' ∩ C ) = 10 P(A ∩ C )

Using the above information, draw a Venn diagram to show the probabilities for events
A , B and C .

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(b) Find:

(i) P( C | A )

(ii) P( B | A ')

(iii) P( (A ∪ B ∪ C ) ' | (A ∪ B ) ')

(3 marks)

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3 (a) The histogram below shows the masses, in grams, of 80 apples.

Find estimates for the median, lower quartile and upper quartile.

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 (5 marks)

(b) Given that the lightest apple weighs 41 g and that the range of masses is 97 g, draw a
box plot to show the distribution of the masses of the apples.

(2 marks)

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4 (a) The ages, x years, of 200 people attending a vaccination clinic in one day are
summarised by the following: Σx = 7211 and Σx 2 = 275 360.

Calculate the mean and standard deviation of the ages of the people attending the clinic
that day.

(3 marks)

(b) One person chooses not to get the vaccine, so their data is discounted. The new mean is
exactly 36. Calculate the age of the person who left and the standard deviation of the
remaining people.

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 (4 marks)

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5 (a) The masses of turkeys can be modelled using a normal distribution with a mean of 4.7 kg
and a variance of 1.9 kg². Nicholas, a farmer, classes a turkey as ‘holiday ready’ if it
weighs more than 5.5 kg.

A turkey is selected at random. Given that it is ‘holiday ready’, find the probability that it
weighs less than 6 kg.

(6 marks)

(b) Nicholas takes a large sample of ‘holiday ready’ turkeys, estimate the median mass of the
turkeys in his sample.

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6 (a) A machine is used to fill bags of potatoes for a supermarket chain. The weight, W kg, of
potatoes in the bags is normally distributed with mean 3 kg and standard deviation σ
kg.

Given that 7% of the bags contain a weight of potatoes that is at least 50 g more than the
mean, find:

P (2 . 9 ≤ W ≤ 3 . 1) .

(5 marks)

(b) Two of the bags of potatoes are chosen at random.

Find the probability that neither of the bags will contain less than 2.96 kg of potatoes.

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7 (a) A discrete random variable, X , can take the values 1, 3, 5 or 7 and it has the cumulative
distribution function F(x ) given in the table.

1 3 5 7
x
0.5 0.65 0.9 1
F(x )

Find the value of:

(i) P (X = 3)
(ii) P (3X + 3 > X + 9)
(iii) E (X )
(iv) Var (X ) .

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(b) Find the value of:

(i) ⎛X ⎞
E ⎜⎜ + 7 ⎟⎟
⎝ 2 ⎠

(ii) ⎛ 2−x ⎞⎟
Var ⎜⎜ ⎟
⎝ 5 ⎠

(iii) E (3X 2 − 1) .

(5 marks)

8 The random variable X has the probability function

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 ⎧⎪ 1
⎪⎪
x = 1,2,3,4,5,6
P(X = x ) = ⎨⎪⎪ k
⎪
⎪⎪ 0 otherwise.
⎩

(i) Write down the value of k .

(ii) Write down the name of this probability distribution.
(iii) Find the values of E(X ) and Var (X ) .

(4 marks)

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9 (a) Charlie is interested to find out if there is positive correlation between the number of
letters in someone’s name, l , and the time, t rounded to the nearest five seconds, it
takes her six-year-old sister to correctly guess the spelling of the name. She decides to
test this by looking at a random sample of different names and timing how long it takes
her sister to guess their spelling.

Letters, l 4 5 5 5 6 7

Time, t 10 5 15 25 60 80
Frequency
x 3 29 17 7 1

Given that S = 17 . 9375 , find the value of x and hence find the number of names in
u
Charlie’s sample.

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(b) Charlie calculates the equation of the regression line of t on l to be

t = 25. 9146l − 107 . 8049 and the product moment correlation coefficient to be 0.84428
correct to 5 decimal places.

(i) Find the value of S and S tt each to 5 significant figures.

lt
(ii) Explain why Charlie should not use this equation to estimate the number of letters
that are in someone’s name if it took her sister 70 seconds to guess the spelling.

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 (5 marks)

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