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When they are switched on, certain small devices independently produce outputs of 1, 2 or 3 volts with respective probabilities of 0.3, 0.6 and 0.1. Find the probability that three of these devices produce an output with a sum of 5 or 6 volts.

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Important Questions on Probability

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One hundred people are attending a conference. The following Venn diagram shows how many are male M, have brown eyes (BE) and are right-handed (RH).

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Given that there are 43 males with brown eyes, 42 right-handed males and 46 right-handed people with brown eyes, copy and complete the Venn diagram.

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One hundred people are attending a conference. The following Venn diagram shows how many are male M, have brown eyes (BE) and are right-handed (RH).

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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]

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One hundred people are attending a conference. The following Venn diagram shows how many are male M, have brown eyes (BE) and are right-handed (RH).

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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]

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A student travels to college by either of two routes, A or B. The probability that they use route A is 0.3, and the probability that they are passed by a bus on their way to college on any particular day is 0.034. They are twice as likely to be passed by a bus when they use route B as when they use route A.

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Use the tree diagram opposite to form and solve a pair of simultaneous equations in x and y.

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A student travels to college by either of two routes, A or B. The probability that they use route A is 0.3, and the probability that they are passed by a bus on their way to college on any particular day is 0.034. They are twice as likely to be passed by a bus when they use route B as when they use route A.

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Find the probability that the student uses route B, given that they are not passed by a bus on their way to college.   [correct up to three decimal places]

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Two ordinary fair dice are rolled. If the first shows a number less than 3 , then the score is the mean of the numbers obtained; otherwise the score is equal to half the absolute (non-negative) difference between the numbers obtained. Find the probability that the score is:

positive

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Two ordinary fair dice are rolled. If the first shows a number less than 3 , then the score is the mean of the numbers obtained; otherwise the score is equal to half the absolute (non-negative) difference between the numbers obtained. Find the probability that the score is:

greater than 1 , given that it is less than 2

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Two ordinary fair dice are rolled. If the first shows a number less than 3 , then the score is the mean of the numbers obtained; otherwise the score is equal to half the absolute (non-negative) difference between the numbers obtained. Find the probability that the score is:

less than 2, given that it is greater than 1