ADDITIONAL MATHEMATICS (FORM 5) SEMESTER 1, 2013 PROBABILITY 1.

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Eleven cards as shown in the above diagram are put into a bag. A card is chosen randomly from the bag. Calculate the probability that the chosen card has a letter I or a vowel. (Answer :

2. Cards written with the letters from the word KEEPERS are put inside a bag. Two cards, one after the other, without replacement, are drawn from the bag. Calculate the probability that a) two cards written with the letter E are drawn b) the first card drawn is written with the letter E and the second card drawn is not written with the letter E. (Answer :

3. There are 6 red chips, 5 green chips and 4 blue chips in a bag. Two chips are drawn at random from the bag. Calculate the probability that both chips are of the same colour. (Answer :

4. Hisham, Yap and Rajan compete against each other in shooting a target. The probabilities that they strike the target are , and respectively. Calculate the probability that a) all the three of them strike the target b) only one of them strikes the target c) at least one of them strikes the target. (Answer : a) b) c) )

5. A bag contains h red, k green and 5 blue balls. A ball is drawn at random from the bag. The probability the ball drawn is not a green ball is . Express h in terms of k. (Answer :