
There is a chance that Riya meets her friend Jasmine when she travels to work. Given that Riya walks to work and does not meet Jasmine of the time, and that she travels to work by a different method and meets Jasmine of the time, find the probability that Riya walks to work on any particular day.


Important Questions on Probability

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?


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.
