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Cambridge A Level ยท 9709 ยท Paper 5 ยท Probability & Statistics 1

Mathematics 9709/53 May/June 2020 past paper

Cambridge A Level Mathematics (9709) Paper 5 (Probability & Statistics 1), variant 3, May/June 2020: the question paper and its official mark scheme, 7 questions worth 50 marks. Free to open, no account needed.

Questions
7
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50
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File names: 9709_s20_qp_53 ยท 9709_s20_ms_53

Topics in this paper

Which syllabus chapters 9709/53 May/June 2020 tested, by marks. Each chapter links to every past-paper question on it.

ChapterQuestionsMarks
Probability424
Representation of Data110
Permutations and Combinations110
Random Variables16

Questions in 9709/53 May/June 2020

  1. Question 1Probability ยท 6 marks

    Juan goes to college each day by any one of car or bus or walking. The probability that he goes by car is 0.2, the probability that he goes by bus is 0.45 and the probability that he walks is โ€ฆ

  2. Question 2Probability ยท 4 marks

    In a certain large college, 22% of students own a car. (a) 3 students from the college are chosen at random. Find the probability that all 3 students own a car. (b) 16 students from the college are chosen at โ€ฆ

  3. Question 3Probability ยท 5 marks

    In a certain town, the time, X hours, for which people watch television in a week has a normal distribution with mean 15.8 hours and standard deviation 4.2 hours. (a) Find the probability that a randomly chosen person from this โ€ฆ

  4. Question 4Random Variables ยท 6 marks

    A fair four-sided spinner has edges numbered โ€ฆ

  5. Question 5Probability ยท 9 marks

    A pair of fair coins is thrown repeatedly until a pair of tails is obtained. The random variable X denotes the number of throws required to obtain a pair of tails. (a) Find the expected value of X. (b) Find โ€ฆ

  6. Question 6Representation of Data ยท 10 marks

    The annual salaries, in thousands of dollars, for 11 employees at each of two companies A and B are shown below. Company โ€ฆ

  7. Question 7Permutations and Combinations ยท 10 marks

    (a) Find the number of di๏ฌ€erent possible arrangements of the 9 letters in the word CELESTIAL. (b) Find the number of di๏ฌ€erent arrangements of the 9 letters in the word CELESTIAL in which the ๏ฌrst letter is C, the ๏ฌfth โ€ฆ

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Which topics came up in 9709/53 May/June 2020?
Mostly Probability, Representation of Data, Permutations and Combinations. The full list is in the table above.
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