Home / iGCSE Mathematics (0580) : C8.1 Calculate the probability of a single event as either a fraction, decimal or percentage. iGCSE Style Questions Paper 1

iGCSE Mathematics (0580) : C8.1 Calculate the probability of a single event as either a fraction, decimal or percentage. iGCSE Style Questions Paper 1

Question

A protractor is a semi-circle of radius 6.1cm.
Calculate the perimeter of the protractor.

Answer/Explanation

Ans: 31.4 or 31.36 to 31.37 

Question

Chico has a bag of sweets.
He takes a sweet from the bag at random.
The table shows the probabilities of taking each flavour of sweet.

FlavourLemonLimeStrawberryBlackcurrantOrange
Probability0.150.22 0.180.24

(a) Complete the table.

Answer/Explanation

Ans: [0].21 oe

(b) Find the probability that the sweet is lemon or lime.

Answer/Explanation

Ans: [0].37 oe 

Question

Dan either walks or cycles to school.
The probability that he cycles to school is \(\frac{1}{3}\).
(a) Write down the probability that Dan walks to school.
(b) There are 198 days in a school year.
Work out the expected number of days that Dan cycles to school in a school year.

Answer/Explanation

Ans:

(a) \(\frac{2}{3}\) oe
(b) 66 cao

Question

The probability that a sweet made in a factory is the wrong shape is 0.0028 .

One day, the factory makes 25000 sweets.

Calculate the number of sweets that are expected to be the wrong shape.[2]

Answer/Explanation

Ans:

18 70

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