OCR MEI S1 2006 January — Question 8

Exam BoardOCR MEI
ModuleS1 (Statistics 1)
Year2006
SessionJanuary
TopicCombinations & Selection

8 Jane buys 5 jam doughnuts, 4 cream doughnuts and 3 plain doughnuts.
On arrival home, each of her three children eats one of the twelve doughnuts. The different kinds of doughnut are indistinguishable by sight and so selection of doughnuts is random. Calculate the probabilities of the following events.
  1. All 3 doughnuts eaten contain jam.
  2. All 3 doughnuts are of the same kind.
  3. The 3 doughnuts are all of a different kind.
  4. The 3 doughnuts contain jam, given that they are all of the same kind. On 5 successive Saturdays, Jane buys the same combination of 12 doughnuts and her three children eat one each. Find the probability that all 3 doughnuts eaten contain jam on
  5. exactly 2 Saturdays out of the 5 ,
  6. at least 1 Saturday out of the 5 .