Question 4 — IGCSE 0580 Oct/Nov 2023 Paper 41
Cambridge IGCSE Mathematics 0580, Extended tier, calculator. Topic: Probability · General. Worth 11 marks.
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4 (a) Lucia has two fair spinners.
Spinner A is five-sided and is numbered 1, 2, 3, 4, 5.
Spinner B is nine-sided and is numbered 3, 3, 3, 4, 4, 4, 4, 5, 5.
Lucia spins the two spinners and records whether they land on a prime number.
(i) Complete the tree diagram.
Spinner A Spinner B
prime
............
prime
3
5
not
............
prime
prime
............
not
............
prime
not
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prime
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(ii) Find the probability that
(a) the two numbers are both prime
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(b) the two numbers are not both prime.
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(b) Lucia spins Spinner A 120 times.
Find the expected number of times the spinner lands on a prime number.
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(c) Lucia spins Spinner B twice.
Find the probability that the two numbers it lands on add up to 9 or more.
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(d) Lucia keeps spinning Spinner B until it lands on a 4.
Find an expression, in terms of n, for the probability that this happens on the nth spin.
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