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At an insurance company, 60% of the staff are male (M) and 70% work full-time (FT). The following Venn diagram shows this and one other piece of information.

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What information is given by the value 0.10 in the Venn diagram?

Important Questions on Probability

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At an insurance company, 60% of the staff are male (M) and 70% work full-time (FT). The following Venn diagram shows this and one other piece of information.

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Find the value of a, b and c.

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At an insurance company, 60% of the staff are male (M) and 70% work full-time (FT). The following Venn diagram shows this and one other piece of information.

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An employee is randomly selected. Find:

P(MFT)

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At an insurance company, 60% of the staff are male (M) and 70% work full-time (FT). The following Venn diagram shows this and one other piece of information.

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An employee is randomly selected. Find:

PFTM'

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At an insurance company, 60% of the staff are male (M) and 70% work full-time (FT). The following Venn diagram shows this and one other piece of information.

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An employee is randomly selected. Find:

P[(MFT)(MFT)].

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Two fair triangular spinners, both with sides marked 1, 2 and 3, are spun. Given that the sum of the two numbers spun is even, find the probability that the two numbers are the same.
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Two ordinary fair dice are rolled and the two numbers rolled are added together to give the score. Given that a player's score is greater than 6 , find the probability that it is not greater than 8
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The circular archery target shown, on which 1, 2, 3 or 5 points can be scored, is divided into four parts of unequal area by concentric circles. The radii of the circles are 3 cm, 9 cm, 15 cm and 30 cm.

You may assume that a randomly fired arrow pierces just one of the four areas and is equally likely to pierce any part of the target.

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Show that the probability of scoring 5 points is 0.01.

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The circular archery target shown, on which 1, 2, 3 or 5 points can be scored, is divided into four parts of unequal area by concentric circles. The radii of the circles are 3 cm, 9 cm, 15 cm and 30 cm.

You may assume that a randomly fired arrow pierces just one of the four areas and is equally likely to pierce any part of the target.

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Find the probability of scoring 3 points, 2 points and 1 point with an arrow.