Skills Check - 20 Mins Name: ____________

Conditional Probability

Q1.
There are 12 sweets in a bag.
4 of the sweets are lemon flavour.
4 of the sweets are strawberry flavour.
4 of the sweets are orange flavour.
Luke takes at random 3 of the sweets.
Work out the probability that exactly 2 of the sweets that Luke takes are the same flavour.

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(Total for question = 5 marks)

Q2.
There are 9 counters in a bag.
There is a number on each counter.

Kal takes at random 3 counters from the bag.

He adds together the numbers on the 3 counters to get his Total.
Work out the probability that his Total is 6

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(Total for question = 5 marks)

Q3.
Felix has 10 cards.
There are 5 red cards, 4 blue cards and 1 green card.
Felix takes at random one of the cards.
He does not replace the card.
Felix then takes at random a second card.
(a) Complete the probability tree diagram.

(2)
(b) Work out the probability that Felix takes at least one blue card and no green card.

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(3)
(Total for question = 5 marks)
Q4.
There are 7 red counters in a bag.
The rest of the counters in the bag are blue.
There are more blue counters than red counters in the bag.
Two counters are to be taken at random from the bag.

The probability that there will be one counter of each colour is

Work out the total number of counters in the bag before any counters are taken from the
bag.

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(Total for question = 5 marks)

END OF TEST (20 Marks)