Practice

Probability
1. A box contains 2 red balls and 3 green balls. A ball is chosen at random from the box.
(a) Given that A is the event that a green ball is chosen, state the number of favourable
outcomes of A.
(b) Find the probability that a green ball is chosen.
2. There are 7 red pens, 8 green pens and 5 blue pens in a bag. A pen is drawn randomly
from the bag. Find the probability that the pen drawn is
(a) a red pen,
(b) a blue pen,
(c) a black pen.
3. There are 12 orange marbles and x purple marbles in a container. The probability that an
orange marble is randomly drawn from the container is 3/5. Find the value of x.
4. The heights of a class of 32 students are recorded in the stem-and-leaf diagram below:
Stem
13
14
15
16
17

Leaf
8
2
1
2
0

9
5
2
2
2

6 8 8 9
2 2 5 5 5 5 5 8 9
3 3 3 3 3 3 3 5
4

Key: 13 | 8 means 138 cm

A student is chosen at random. Find the probability that the height of the student is
(a) between 150 cm and 160 cm,
(b) not 163 cm.
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