Edexcel S1 — Question 1

Exam BoardEdexcel
ModuleS1 (Statistics 1)
TopicConditional Probability
TypeIncomplete two-way table completion

  1. Joel buys a box of second-hand Jazz and Blues CDs at a car boot sale.
In the box there are 30 CDs, 8 of which were recorded live. 16 of the CDs are predominantly Jazz and 13 of these were recorded in the studio. This information is shown in the following table.
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Jazz1316
Blues
Total830
  1. Copy and complete the table above. Joel picks a CD at random to play first.
    Find the probability that it is
  2. a Blues CD that was recorded live,
  3. a Jazz CD, given that it was recorded in the studio.