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Date May 2019 Marks available 2 Reference code 19M.1.SL.TZ2.T_5
Level Standard Level Paper Paper 1 Time zone Time zone 2
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Question

A school café sells three flavours of smoothies: mango ( M ), kiwi fruit ( K ) and banana ( B ).
85 students were surveyed about which of these three flavours they like.

35 students liked mango, 37 liked banana, and 26 liked kiwi fruit
2 liked all three flavours
20 liked both mango and banana
14 liked mango and kiwi fruit
3 liked banana and kiwi fruit

Using the given information, complete the following Venn diagram.

[2]
a.

Find the number of surveyed students who did not like any of the three flavours.

[2]
b.

A student is chosen at random from the surveyed students.

Find the probability that this student likes kiwi fruit smoothies given that they like mango smoothies.

[2]
c.

Markscheme

* This question is from an exam for a previous syllabus, and may contain minor differences in marking or structure.

    (A1)(A1) (C2)

Note: Award (A1) for 18, 12 and 1 in correct place on Venn diagram, (A1) for 3, 16 and 11 in correct place on Venn diagram.

[2 marks]

a.

85 − (3 + 16 + 11 + 18 + 12 + 1 + 2)      (M1)

Note: Award (M1) for subtracting the sum of their values from 85.

22      (A1)(ft)  (C2)

Note: Follow through from their Venn diagram in part (a).
If any numbers that are being subtracted are negative award (M1)(A0).

[2 marks]

b.

14 35 ( 2 5 , 0.4 , 40 )      (A1)(ft)(A1)(ft)  (C2)

Note: Award (A1) for correct numerator; (A1) for correct denominator. Follow through from their Venn diagram.

[2 marks]

c.

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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