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In a survey on pet ownership, 36% of the participants own a cat, 20% own a hamster but not a cat, and 8% own a hamster and a cat. What percentage of the participants owns neither a hamster nor a cat?

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Important Questions on Probability

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A garage repaired 132 vehicles last month. The number of vehicles that required electrical (E), mechanical (M) and bodywork (B) repairs are given in the diagram opposite.

Find the probability that a randomly selected vehicle required mechanical or bodywork repairs.

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A garage repaired 132 vehicles last month. The number of vehicles that required electrical (E), mechanical (M) and bodywork (B) repairs are given in the diagram opposite.

Find the probability that a randomly selected vehicle required no bodywork repairs.

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A garage repaired 132 vehicles last month. The number of vehicles that required electrical (E), mechanical (M) and bodywork (B) repairs are given in the diagram opposite.

Find the probability that a randomly selected vehicle required exactly two types of repair.

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The 100 students at a technical college must study at least one subject from Pure Mathematics (P), Statistics (S) and Mechanics (M). The numbers studying these subjects are given in the diagram opposite.

Who does the number 17 in the diagram refer to?

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The 100 students at a technical college must study at least one subject from Pure Mathematics (P), Statistics (S) and Mechanics (M). The numbers studying these subjects are given in the diagram opposite.

Find the probability that a randomly selected student studies: Pure Mathematics or Mechanics.

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The 100 students at a technical college must study at least one subject from Pure Mathematics (P), Statistics (S) and Mechanics (M). The numbers studying these subjects are given in the diagram opposite.

Find the probability that a randomly selected student studies exactly two of these subjects.

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The 100 students at a technical college must study at least one subject from Pure Mathematics (P), Statistics (S) and Mechanics (M). The numbers studying these subjects are given in the diagram opposite.

List the three subjects in ascending order of popularity.

 

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Events X and Y are such that P(X)=0.5, P(Y)=0.6 and P(XY)=0.2.

State, giving a reason, whether events X and Y are mutually exclusive.