Questions - CAIE S1 - A-Level Maths

Find the number of different arrangements of heads and tails which can be obtained.
Find the number of different arrangements which contain 7 heads and 5 tails.

CAIE S1 2011 November Q3

Geoff wishes to plant 25 flowers in a flower-bed. He can choose from 15 different geraniums, 10 different roses and 8 different lilies. He wants to have at least 11 geraniums and also to have the same number of roses and lilies. Find the number of different selections of flowers he can make.
Find the number of different ways in which the 9 letters of the word GREENGAGE can be arranged if exactly two of the Gs are next to each other.

CAIE S1 2011 November Q4

4 The weights of 220 sausages are summarised in the following table.

Weight (grams)	$< 20$	$< 30$	$< 40$	$< 45$	$< 50$	$< 60$	$< 70$
Cumulative frequency	0	20	50	100	160	210	220

State which interval the median weight lies in.
Find the smallest possible value and the largest possible value for the interquartile range.
State how many sausages weighed between 50 g and 60 g .
On graph paper, draw a histogram to represent the weights of the sausages.

CAIE S1 2011 November Q5

5 A triangular spinner has one red side, one blue side and one green side. The red side is weighted so that the spinner is four times more likely to land on the red side than on the blue side. The green side is weighted so that the spinner is three times more likely to land on the green side than on the blue side.

Show that the probability that the spinner lands on the blue side is $\frac { 1 } { 8 }$.
The spinner is spun 3 times. Find the probability that it lands on a different coloured side each time.
The spinner is spun 136 times. Use a suitable approximation to find the probability that it lands on the blue side fewer than 20 times.

CAIE S1 2011 November Q6

6 There are a large number of students in Luttley College. $60 \%$ of the students are boys. Students can choose exactly one of Games, Drama or Music on Friday afternoons. It is found that $75 \%$ of the boys choose Games, $10 \%$ of the boys choose Drama and the remainder of the boys choose Music. Of the girls, $30 \%$ choose Games, $55 \%$ choose Drama and the remainder choose Music.

6 boys are chosen at random. Find the probability that fewer than 3 of them choose Music.
5 Drama students are chosen at random. Find the probability that at least 1 of them is a boy.
In a certain country, the daily minimum temperature, in ${ } ^ { \circ } \mathrm { C }$, in winter has the distribution $\mathrm { N } ( 8,24 )$. Find the probability that a randomly chosen winter day in this country has a minimum temperature between $7 ^ { \circ } \mathrm { C }$ and $12 ^ { \circ } \mathrm { C }$. The daily minimum temperature, in ${ } ^ { \circ } \mathrm { C }$, in another country in winter has a normal distribution with mean $\mu$ and standard deviation $2 \mu$.
Find the proportion of winter days on which the minimum temperature is below zero.
70 winter days are chosen at random. Find how many of these would be expected to have a minimum temperature which is more than three times the mean.
The probability of the minimum temperature being above $6 ^ { \circ } \mathrm { C }$ on any winter day is 0.0735 . Find the value of $\mu$.

CAIE S1 2011 November Q1

1 The random variable $X$ is normally distributed and is such that the mean $\mu$ is three times the standard deviation $\sigma$. It is given that $\mathrm { P } ( X < 25 ) = 0.648$.

Find the values of $\mu$ and $\sigma$.
Find the probability that, from 6 random values of $X$, exactly 4 are greater than 25 .

CAIE S1 2011 November Q2

2 In a group of 30 teenagers, 13 of the 18 males watch 'Kops are Kids' on television and 3 of the 12 females watch 'Kops are Kids'.

Find the probability that a person chosen at random from the group is either female or watches 'Kops are Kids' or both.
Showing your working, determine whether the events 'the person chosen is male' and 'the person chosen watches Kops are Kids' are independent or not.

CAIE S1 2011 November Q3

3 A factory makes a large number of ropes with lengths either 3 m or 5 m . There are four times as many ropes of length 3 m as there are ropes of length 5 m .

One rope is chosen at random. Find the expectation and variance of its length.
Two ropes are chosen at random. Find the probability that they have different lengths.
Three ropes are chosen at random. Find the probability that their total length is 11 m .

CAIE S1 2011 November Q4

4 Mary saves her digital images on her computer in three separate folders named 'Family', 'Holiday' and 'Friends'. Her family folder contains 3 images, her holiday folder contains 4 images and her friends folder contains 8 images. All the images are different.

Find in how many ways she can arrange these 15 images in a row across her computer screen if she keeps the images from each folder together.
Find the number of different ways in which Mary can choose 6 of these images if there are 2 from each folder.
Find the number of different ways in which Mary can choose 6 of these images if there are at least 3 images from the friends folder and at least 1 image from each of the other two folders.

CAIE S1 2011 November Q5

5
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On graph paper, draw a box-and-whisker plot to illustrate these salaries.
Comment on the salaries of the people in this sample.
An 'outlier' is defined as any data value which is more than 1.5 times the interquartile range above the upper quartile, or more than 1.5 times the interquartile range below the lower quartile.
(a) How high must a salary be in order to be classified as an outlier?
(b) Show that none of the salaries is low enough to be classified as an outlier.

CAIE S1 2011 November Q6

6 Human blood groups are identified by two parts. The first part is $\mathrm { A } , \mathrm { B } , \mathrm { AB }$ or O and the second part (the Rhesus part) is + or - . In the UK, $35 \%$ of the population are group $\mathrm { A } + , 8 \%$ are $\mathrm { B } + , 3 \%$ are $\mathrm { AB } +$, $37 \%$ are $\mathrm { O } + , 7 \%$ are $\mathrm { A } - , 2 \%$ are $\mathrm { B } - , 1 \%$ are $\mathrm { AB } -$ and $7 \%$ are $\mathrm { O } -$.

A random sample of 9 people in the UK who are Rhesus + is taken. Find the probability that fewer than 3 are group $\mathrm { O } +$.
A random sample of 150 people in the UK is taken. Find the probability that more than 60 people are group A+.

CAIE S1 2012 November Q1

1 Ashok has 3 green pens and 7 red pens. His friend Rod takes 3 of these pens at random, without replacement. Draw up a probability distribution table for the number of green pens Rod takes.

CAIE S1 2012 November Q2

2 The amounts of money, $x$ dollars, that 24 people had in their pockets are summarised by $\Sigma ( x - 36 ) = - 60$ and $\Sigma ( x - 36 ) ^ { 2 } = 227.76$. Find $\Sigma x$ and $\Sigma x ^ { 2 }$.

CAIE S1 2012 November Q3

3 Lengths of rolls of parcel tape have a normal distribution with mean 75 m , and 15\% of the rolls have lengths less than 73 m .

Find the standard deviation of the lengths. Alison buys 8 rolls of parcel tape.
Find the probability that fewer than 3 of these rolls have lengths more than 77 m .

CAIE S1 2012 November Q4

4 Prices in dollars of 11 caravans in a showroom are as follows.
$\begin{array} { l l l l l l l l l l l } 16800 & 18500 & 17700 & 14300 & 15500 & 15300 & 16100 & 16800 & 17300 & 15400 & 16400 \end{array}$

Represent these prices by a stem-and-leaf diagram.
Write down the lower quartile of the prices of the caravans in the showroom.
3 different caravans in the showroom are chosen at random and their prices are noted. Find the probability that 2 of these prices are more than the median and 1 is less than the lower quartile.

CAIE S1 2012 November Q5

5 A company set up a display consisting of 20 fireworks. For each firework, the probability that it fails to work is 0.05 , independently of other fireworks.

Find the probability that more than 1 firework fails to work. The 20 fireworks cost the company $
) 24\( each. 450 people pay the company $\$ 10$ each to watch the display. If more than 1 firework fails to work they get their money back.
Calculate the expected profit for the company.

CAIE S1 2012 November Q6

6 Ana meets her friends once every day. For each day the probability that she is early is 0.05 and the probability that she is late is 0.75 . Otherwise she is on time.

Find the probability that she is on time on fewer than 20 of the next 96 days.
If she is early there is a probability of 0.7 that she will eat a banana. If she is late she does not eat a banana. If she is on time there is a probability of 0.4 that she will eat a banana. Given that for one particular meeting with friends she does not eat a banana, find the probability that she is on time.

CAIE S1 2012 November Q7

In a sweet shop 5 identical packets of toffees, 4 identical packets of fruit gums and 9 identical packets of chocolates are arranged in a line on a shelf. Find the number of different arrangements of the packets that are possible if the packets of chocolates are kept together.
Jessica buys 8 different packets of biscuits. She then chooses 4 of these packets.
1. How many different choices are possible if the order in which Jessica chooses the 4 packets is taken into account? The 8 packets include 1 packet of chocolate biscuits and 1 packet of custard creams.
2. How many different choices are possible if the order in which Jessica chooses the 4 packets is taken into account and the packet of chocolate biscuits and the packet of custard creams are both chosen?
9 different fruit pies are to be divided between 3 people so that each person gets an odd number of pies. Find the number of ways this can be done.

CAIE S1 2020 Specimen Q1

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( ( )	754000	4	0112556889	(1)
(4)	9500	8	3457789	$( \gamma$
(2)	50	8	046	(3

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CAIE S1 2020 Specimen Q2

4 marks

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CAIE S1 2020 Specimen Q3

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CAIE S1 2020 Specimen Q4

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CAIE S1 2020 Specimen Q5

4 marks

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CAIE S1 2020 Specimen Q6

4 marks

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CAIE S1 2020 Specimen Q7

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Weight (grams)	\(< 20\)	\(< 30\)	\(< 40\)	\(< 45\)	\(< 50\)	\(< 60\)	\(< 70\)
Cumulative frequency	0	20	50	100	160	210	220

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