AQA Paper 3 2018 June — Question 14

Exam BoardAQA
ModulePaper 3 (Paper 3)
Year2018
SessionJune
TopicIndependent Events
TypeIndependence in contingency tables

14 A teacher in a college asks her mathematics students what other subjects they are studying. She finds that, of her 24 students:
12 study physics
8 study geography
4 study geography and physics
14
  1. A student is chosen at random from the class.
    Determine whether the event 'the student studies physics' and the event 'the student studies geography' are independent.
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  2. It is known that for the whole college:
    the probability of a student studying mathematics is \(\frac { 1 } { 5 }\)
    the probability of a student studying biology is \(\frac { 1 } { 6 }\)
    the probability of a student studying biology given that they study mathematics is \(\frac { 3 } { 8 }\)
    Calculate the probability that a student studies mathematics or biology or both.