Edexcel Paper 3 Specimen — Question 4

Exam BoardEdexcel
ModulePaper 3 (Paper 3)
SessionSpecimen
TopicConditional Probability
TypeVenn diagram with three events

4. The Venn diagram shows the probabilities of students' lunch boxes containing a drink, sandwiches and a chocolate bar.
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\(D\) is the event that a lunch box contains a drink, \(S\) is the event that a lunch box contains sandwiches,
\(C\) is the event that a lunch box contains a chocolate bar, \(u , v\) and \(w\) are probabilities.
  1. Write down \(\mathrm { P } \left( S \cap D ^ { \prime } \right)\). One day, 80 students each bring in a lunch box.
    Given that all 80 lunch boxes contain sandwiches and a drink,
  2. estimate how many of these 80 lunch boxes will contain a chocolate bar. Given that the events \(S\) and \(C\) are independent and that \(\mathrm { P } ( D \mid C ) = \frac { 14 } { 15 }\),
  3. calculate the value of \(u\), the value of \(v\) and the value of \(w\).
    (7)
    (Total 11 marks)