Edexcel S1 — Question 5

Exam BoardEdexcel
ModuleS1 (Statistics 1)
TopicConditional Probability
TypeBasic two-way table probability

5. A College employs 75 teachers, of whom 47 are full-time and the rest are part-time. Of the 39 male teachers at the College, 26 are full-time.
  1. Represent this information on a Venn diagram.
  2. One teacher is selected at random to be interviewed by an inspector. Find the probability that the teacher chosen
    1. works full-time and is female,
    2. works part-time, given that he is male.
  3. Three teachers are selected at random to be observed by an inspector during one day. Find correct to 3 significant figures the probability that
    1. all three teachers chosen work full-time,
    2. at least one of the three teachers chosen is female.