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Mathematics NECO SSCE 2001 Statistics and Probability
51 women wore coloured shoes to a party, out of which 21 wore purple and 9 wore white. if a woman is selected at Random. What is the probability that she is wearing neither a purple shoe nor a white shoe?
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A
\(\frac{10}{17}\)
B
\(\frac{7}{17}\)
C
\(\frac{20}{51}\)
D
\(\frac{3}{17}\)
E
\(\frac{1}{51}\)
medium Difficulty
Mathematics WAEC / WASSCE 2001 Statistics and Probability
A box contains 5 red, 3 green and 4 blue balls. A boy is allowed to take away two balls from the box. What is the probability that the two balls are red?
A
\(\frac{5}{33}\)
B
\(\frac{5}{36}\)
C
\(\frac{103}{132}\)
D
\(\frac{31}{36}\)
medium Difficulty
Mathematics WAEC / WASSCE 2001 Statistics and Probability
A box contains 5 red, 3 green and 4 blue balls. A boy is allowed to take away two balls from the box. What is the probability that one is green and the other is blue?
A
\(\frac{2}{11}\)
B
\(\frac{5}{12}\)
C
\(\frac{8}{12}\)
D
\(\frac{7}{11}\)
medium Difficulty
Mathematics WAEC / WASSCE 2001 Statistics and Probability
If the probability that an event will occur is p and the probability that it will not occur is q, which of the following is true?
A
p-q=1
B
q-p=0
C
p+q=1
D
p+q=0
medium Difficulty
Mathematics WAEC / WASSCE 2001 Statistics and Probability
What is the mode?
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A
22.5 years
B
23.0 years
C
24.0 years
D
27.5 years
medium Difficulty
Mathematics UTME / JAMB 2001 Statistics and Probability
The graph shows the cumulative frequency of the distribution of masses of fertilizer for 48 workers in one institution. Which of the following gives the inter-quartile range?
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A
\(\frac{1}{2}(Q_3 - Q_1)\)
B
Q3 - Q2
C
Q3 - Q2
D
Q3 - Q1
medium Difficulty
Mathematics NECO SSCE 2001 Statistics and Probability
If the mean of 3, 5, 8, k, 14 and 17 is 11, what is the value of k
A
58
B
38
C
19
D
11
E
967
medium Difficulty
Mathematics NECO SSCE 2001 Statistics and Probability
The mean age of 12 boys involved survey is 19 years, 3 months. lf the-age of one of the boys is 22 years, what is the mean age of the other-boys?
A
10.5 years
B
19.0 years
C
35.4 years
D
264.0 years
E
423.5 years
medium Difficulty
Mathematics NECO SSCE 2001 Statistics and Probability
Two beads are drawn at random, one after the other, with replacement, from a box containing 5 red and 7 white identical beads. What is the probability that the beads are the same colour
A
\(\frac{119}{144}\)
B
\(\frac{95}{144}\)
C
\(\frac{37}{72}\)
D
\(\frac{49}{144}\)
E
\(\frac{1}{6}\)
medium Difficulty
Mathematics NECO SSCE 2001 Statistics and Probability
Two fair coins are tossed at the same time. what is the probability of getting a head?
A
1
B
\(\frac{3}{4}\)
C
\(\frac{1}{2}\)
D
\(\frac{1}{3}\)
E
\(\frac{1}{4}\)
medium Difficulty
Mathematics UTME / JAMB 2000 Statistics and Probability
In a youth club with 94 members, 60 like modern music, and 50 like traditional music. The number of members who like both traditional and modern music is three times those who do not like any type of music. How many members like only one type of music?
A
8
B
24
C
62
D
86
medium Difficulty
Mathematics UTME / JAMB 2000 Statistics and Probability
if P and Q are fixed points and X is a point which moves so that XP = XQ, the locus of X is
A
A straight line
B
a circle
C
the bisector of angle PXQ
D
the perpendicular bisector of PQ
medium Difficulty
Mathematics UTME / JAMB 2000 Statistics and Probability
X and Y are two events. The probability of X or Y is 0.7 and that of X is 0.4. If X and Y are independent, find the probability of Y.
A
0.30
B
0.50
C
0.57
D
1.80
medium Difficulty
Mathematics UTME / JAMB 2000 Statistics and Probability
If the mean of the numbers 0, (x+2), (3x+6), and (4x+8) is 4, find their mean deviation.
A
0
B
2
C
3
D
4
medium Difficulty
Mathematics UTME / JAMB 2000 Statistics and Probability
If U = {x : x is an integer and 1 \(\leq\) x \(\leq\) 20} E\(_1\) = {x : x is a multiple of 3} E\(_2\) = {x : x is a multiple of 4} and an integer is picked at random from U, find the probability that it is not in E\(_2\)
A
3/4
B
3/10
C
1/4
D
1/20
medium Difficulty
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