Question 1
15 marks
School survey: Venn diagram, conditional probability and a binomial model
- Statistics and probability
(a)
4 marks
Both dog and cat is 14%. Dog only is , cat only is , and the rest have neither.
(b)
3 marks
- Dog but no cat is the dog-only region.
- Given no cat, the sample space is dog-only plus neither: .
(c)
7 marks
- Let be the number of captains with a dog.
- Exactly nine in succession means DDDDDDDDDN or NDDDDDDDDD.
(d)
1 mark
John picks 10 students from the survey without putting them back, so the choices are not independent and the probability of a dog changes from pick to pick.

