
Four quality-control officers were asked to test randomly selected electronic components from a company's production line, and to report the proportions that they found to be defective. The proportions reported were:
and .
These figures confirm what the manager thought; that about of the components produced are defective. Of the components that will be produced next month, approximately how many does the manager expect to be defective?
and .


Important Questions on Probability

The diagram opposite gives details about a company's employees. For example, it employs four unqualified, part-time females.
Two employees are selected at random. Find the probability that:
one is a qualified male and the other is an unqualified female

The diagram opposite gives details about a company's employees. For example, it employs four unqualified, part-time females.
Two employees are selected at random. Find the probability that:
both are unqualified, given that neither is employed part-time.

The numbers of books read in the past months by the members of a reading club are shown in the following table.
No. books | ||||||
No. members |
Find the probability that three randomly selected members have all read fewer than eight books, given that they have all read more than four books.


One hundred people are attending a conference. The following Venn diagram shows how many are male , have brown eyes and are right-handed .
Given that there are males with brown eyes, right-handed males and 46 right-handed people with brown eyes, copy and complete the Venn diagram.

One hundred people are attending a conference. The following Venn diagram shows how many are male , have brown eyes and are right-handed .
Two attendees are selected at random. Find the probability that they are both females who are not right-handed. [correct up to five decimal places]

One hundred people are attending a conference. The following Venn diagram shows how many are male , have brown eyes and are right-handed .
Two attendees are selected at random. Find the probability that exactly one of them is right-handed, given that neither of them have brown eyes. [correct up to three decimal places]
