Mathematics 9709/52 Feb/March 2026 past paper

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Questions in 9709/52 Feb/March 2026

1. Question 1Permutations and Combinations · 4 marks

   A club has 12 members of which 7 are men and 5 are women. A committee of 4 members is to be chosen from these 12 members. Find the probability that a randomly chosen committee includes at least 2 men.

2. Question 2Permutations and Combinations · 7 marks

   (a) Find the number of different arrangements of the 9 letters in the word ATTENTIVE in which the two Es are together but the three Ts are not all together. (b) Find the number of different arrangements of the 9 …

3. Question 3Representation of Data · 9 marks

   On a particular day, the times taken to travel to Meriday college by 150 students are recorded, correct to the nearest minute. These times are summarised in the table. time, in minutes …

4. Question 4Probability · 9 marks

   Suri has a bag containing 4 blue discs and 3 yellow discs. She selects one disc from the bag at random, notes its colour and returns it to the bag. She repeats this process until she obtains a yellow disc. …

5. Question 5Probability · 9 marks

   Drivers who wish to obtain an advanced driving qualification must pass two tests: a theory test and a skills test. Drivers must pass the theory test first and they are allowed up to a maximum of two attempts to pass …

6. Question 6Normal Distribution · 12 marks

   A company sells bags of pasta. The masses of large bags of pasta are normally distributed with mean 2.40 kg and standard deviation 0.18 kg. (a) In a random sample of 400 large bags, how many would you expect to …

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