iGCSE Mathematics (0580) : C8.5 Calculate the probability of simple combined events iGCSE Style Questions Paper 1

Question

A bag contains 50 counters.
10 of the counters are red.
One of the counters is taken from the bag at random.
(a) Draw an arrow (↓ ) on the scale to show the probability that this counter is red.


(b) Find the probability that the counter is not red.

Answer/Explanation

(a) Arrow at 0.2

(b) 0.8

Question

 A bag contains red marbles, green marbles and blue marbles only.
The ratio of the number of marbles of each colour is
red : green : blue = 12 : 5 : 2.
There are 112 more red marbles than green marbles.
Work out the number of blue marbles.

Answer/Explanation

32

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