Mathematics 8300: Probability Topical Past Paper Questions

Jing rolls a fair six-sided dice 72 times. Is the relative frequency of rolling a 5 greater than the theoretical probability? Tick a box. Give a reason for your answer.

Here is a biased spinner. Ali, Ben and Cary want to know the probability of spinning red on the biased spinner. They each spin it and count how many times it lands on red and divide by the total number of spins. Who had the best estimate for the probability of spinning red? Give…

In a video game, players make their own character. They choose one of each from 8 faces 4 bodies 5 hairstyles. (a) How many different characters can be made? [2 marks] Answer (b) Two characters are made at random. What is the probability that they are exactly the same? [1 mark] A…