Edexcel S1 2015 June — Question 3

Exam BoardEdexcel
ModuleS1 (Statistics 1)
Year2015
SessionJune
TopicPrinciple of Inclusion/Exclusion
TypeStandard Survey to Venn Diagram

  1. A college has 80 students in Year 12.
20 students study Biology
28 students study Chemistry
30 students study Physics
7 students study both Biology and Chemistry
11 students study both Chemistry and Physics
5 students study both Physics and Biology
3 students study all 3 of these subjects
  1. Draw a Venn diagram to represent this information. A Year 12 student at the college is selected at random.
  2. Find the probability that the student studies Chemistry but not Biology or Physics.
  3. Find the probability that the student studies Chemistry or Physics or both. Given that the student studies Chemistry or Physics or both,
  4. find the probability that the student does not study Biology.
  5. Determine whether studying Biology and studying Chemistry are statistically independent.