CLASS – 9
MATHEMATICS
REVISION WORKSHEET
NAME: ___________________ DATE: _________
1) What is a probability?
2) What is relative frequency?
3) What is an even chance?
4) What is likely?
5) What is unlikely?
6) What is certain?
7) What is the probability of an impossible event?
8) What is the probability of certain?
9) What is the probability of even chance?
10) Draw the probability scale.
11) What are mutually exclusive outcomes?
12) What is an independent event?
13) P(A and B)=
14) P(A or B) =
15) Jason has 20 socks in a drawer. 8 socks are red, 10 socks are blue and two socks are
green. If a sock is drawn at random, what is the probability that it is
i) Green
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ii) Blue
iii) Red
16) Nine painters are assigned a letter from the word HOLLYWOOD for painting at
random. Find the probability that a painter is assigned:
i) The letter ‘Y’
ii) The letter ‘O’
iii) The letter 'H’ or the letter 'L’
iv) The letter 'Z’
17) A simple die is thrown 100 times and the number five appears 14 times. Find the
experimental probability of throwing a five, giving your answer as a fraction in its
lowest terms.
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18) Research shows that the probability of a person being right-handed is 0.77. How many
left handed people would you expect in a population of 25000?
19) A bag contains nine equal sized balls. Four of the balls are coloured blue and the
remaining five balls are coloured red. What is the probability that when the ball is
drawn from the bag:
i) It is blue?
ii) It is red?
iii) It neither blue nor red?
iv) It is either blue or red?
20) An unbiased coin is thrown twice and the outcome for each is recorded as H and T. A
possibility diagram could be drawn as shown.
Find the probability that:
i) Draw a suitable possibility diagram to show the possible outcomes.
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ii) The coins show the same face
iii) The coin both show heads
iv) There is at least one head
v) There is no heads
21) Two dice are thrown and the sum of the two numbers is recorded.
a) Draw a suitable possibility diagram to show all possible outcomes.
b) Find the probability that
i) The sum is 1.
ii) The sum is 7.
iii) The sum is less than 5.
iv) The sum is greater than or equal to 8.
v) The sum is 13.
22) What is a sequence?
23) Draw a diagram to show how each of the following sequences continues and find
the next three terms in each case.
i) 2, 4, 6, 8, 10,…
ii) 3, 8, 13, 18, 23,…
iii) O.5, 2, 3.5, 5, 6.5, …
iv) 2, 4, 8, 16, 32,…
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24) Find the nth term, 7th term, 12th term and 15th term for each of the following
sequences.
i) 5, 8, 11, 14,…
ii) 6, 10, 14, 18,…
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iii) 3, 8, 13, 18, …
iv) 10, 15, 20, 25, …
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25) Consider the sequence: 8, 13, 18, 23, 28, …
i) Find the nth term of the sequence
ii) Which term of this sequence has the value 153. Show full working.
iii) Which term of this sequence has the value 93. Show full working.
iv) Which term of this sequence has the value 128. Show full working.
v) Which term of this sequence has the value 228. Show full working.
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26) Workout the first five terms of the sequence and the 15 th term of the sequence,
i) 𝑢𝑛 = 𝑛 + 6
𝑛
ii) 𝑢𝑛 = + 1
2
iii) 𝑢𝑛 = 9𝑛
iv) 𝑢𝑛 = 2𝑛 + 5
v) 𝑢𝑛 = 4𝑛 − 3
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vi) 𝑢𝑛 = 𝑛2
vii) 𝑢𝑛 = 2𝑛
27) What are rational numbers? Give examples.
28) What are terminating decimals? Give examples.
29) What are recurring decimals? Give examples.
30) What is a set?
31) Write whether each of these numbers is a rational or an irrational number.
i) √14 vi) √7
ii) √4 vii) √9
iii) √23 viii) √81
iv) √3 ix) √50
v) √44 x) √49
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32) List all the elements of each set.
i) {months of the year}
ii) {factors of 25}
iii) {factors of 64)
iv) {factors of 36)
33) Describe each set fully in words.
i) {1, 4, 9, 25, 36, 49, …}
ii) {1, 3, 5, 7, 9, …}
iii) {Asia, Europe, Africa,…}
iv) {1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 12}
34) If W = {4, 8, 12, 16, 20} and T = { 5, 8, 20, 24}
a) List the elements of:
i) 𝑊 ∪ 𝑇
ii) 𝑊 ∩ 𝑇
b) Find
i) 𝑛(𝑊 ∪ 𝑇)
ii) 𝑛(𝑊 ∩ 𝑇)
c) Is it true that 28 ∈ 𝑊 ∩ 𝑇?
d) Is it true that 24 ∈ 𝑊 ∩ 𝑇?
35) Draw a Venn diagram to show the following sets and write each element in its
correct space.
a) 𝜀 = (𝑎, 𝑏, 𝑐, 𝑑, 𝑒, 𝑓, 𝑔, ℎ}
𝐴 = {𝑏, 𝑐, 𝑓, 𝑔} 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝐵 = {𝑎, 𝑏, 𝑐, 𝑑, 𝑓}
36) The universal set is: {Students in a class}
V={students who like volleyball}
S={students who play soccer}.
There are 30 students in the class. The Venn diagram shows numbers of students.
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a) Find the value of x.
b) How many students like volleyball?
c) How many students in the class do not play soccer?
37) Describe each of these sets using set builder notation.
a) Square numbers less than 101.
b) Days of the week.
c) Integers less than 0.
d) Whole numbers between 2 and 10.
38) Express each of the following in set builder notation.
a) {2, 3, 4, 5, 6}
b) {a, e, I, o, u}
c) {1, 2, 3, 6, 9, 18}
d) {1, 5, 25}
e) {1, 7, 49}
f) (1, 2, 4, 8, 16, 32}
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