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Date November 2020 Marks available 2 Reference code 20N.1.SL.TZ0.S_1
Level Standard Level Paper Paper 1 Time zone Time zone 0
Command term Find Question number S_1 Adapted from N/A

Question

In a class of 30 students, 19 play tennis, 3 play both tennis and volleyball, and 6 do not play either sport.

The following Venn diagram shows the events “plays tennis” and “plays volleyball”. The values t and v represent numbers of students.

Find the value of t.

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a.i.

Find the value of v.

[2]
a.ii.

Find the probability that a randomly selected student from the class plays tennis or volleyball, but not both.

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b.

Markscheme

valid approach to find t       (M1)

eg  t+3=19, 19-3

t=16 (may be seen on Venn diagram)        A1 N2

[2 marks]

a.i.

valid approach to find v       (M1)

eg  t+3+v+6=30, 30-19-6

v=5 (may be seen on Venn diagram)        A1 N2

[2 marks]

a.ii.

valid approach       (M1)

eg  16+521 students, 1-3+630

2130 =710        A1 N2

[2 marks]

b.

Examiners report

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Syllabus sections

Topic 4—Statistics and probability » SL 4.6—Combined, mutually exclusive, conditional, independence, prob diagrams
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