OCR MEI S1 — Question 3 1 marks

Exam BoardOCR MEI
ModuleS1 (Statistics 1)
Marks1
TopicConditional Probability
TypeIndependence test requiring preliminary calculations

3 In the 2001 census, people living in Wales were asked whether or not they could speak Welsh. A resident of Wales is selected at random.
  • \(W\) is the event that this person speaks Welsh.
  • \(C\) is the event that this person is a child.
You are given that \(\mathrm { P } ( W ) = 0.20 , \mathrm { P } ( C ) = 0.17\) and \(\mathrm { P } ( W \cap C ) = 0.06\).
  1. Determine whether the events \(W\) and \(C\) are independent.
  2. Draw a Venn diagram, showing the events \(W\) and \(C\), and fill in the probability corresponding to each region of your diagram.
  3. Find \(\mathrm { P } ( W \mid C )\).
  4. Given that \(\mathrm { P } \left( W \mid C ^ { \prime } \right) = 0.169\), use this information and your answer to part (iii) to comment very briefly on how the ability to speak Welsh differs between children and adults. [1]
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