Y7 Probability and Data Smarter Maths

2.
Statistics, NAP-31736
MATHEMATICS The table below shows the number of car accidents reported in four country towns in June.
Year 7
Y7 Statistics and Probability
Data and Statistics (7)
Probability
Teacher: Artika Vinod
Exam Equivalent Time: 123.75 minutes (based on allocation ~1.25 min/mark)
Questions
1. Statistics, NAP-37651 Which country town had about 70 reported car accidents in June?
This graph shows how students in Year 7 at Kotara High usually get to school.
How students get to school

60 3. Statistics, NAP-19904
50 Key Kim is a bricklayer and he recorded the number of bricks he layed each day for five days in a picture
Number 40 Boys graph.
of 30 Girls
students
20
10
0
Horse/Walk Car Bus
Type of travel
Use the information in the graph to complete this table.
Horse/Walk Car Bus

Boys 40 20 20
Girls 20 30 ?
What is the difference between the number of bricks Kim laid on Monday and the number of bricks he laid
How many girls catch the bus to school? on Thursday?
girls
4. Statistics, NAP-49340 6. Statistics, NAP-84693
Four students recorded the number of times they participated in different sports in one week in the table This is John's University timetable.
below.
In total, which sport was participated in the most times?

Which room is John in at 2:45 pm on Tuesday?
Swimming Soccer Tennis Netball
5. Statistics, NAP-18785
This graph shows the number of lottery tickets sold by a newsagent on each day of a given week.
Matt was recording the colour of cars that drove past his school in 1 hour.
In the hour, Matt saw 9 blue, 12 silver and 6 white cars.
In the tables below, = 3 cars.
Which table correctly shows the number of cars that Matt saw?
On which days did the newsagent sell 23 lottery tickets?
Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday

This graph shows the number of customers in a stationery store at 10-minute intervals over 3 hours. Anne taught a kindergarten class and asked her students what their favorite fruit is.
Their answers were used to draw the pie chart below.
At which of these times was the greatest number of customers in the store?
Around a quarter of her students preferred which fruit?
10 of the tallest mountains in the United States are listed in the table below:
11. Probability, NAP-59916
Jack rolls a standard dice three times.
He rolls a six each time.
Jack then has a forth roll.
Which of the following is true?
He is more likely to roll a six than a four.

He is certain to roll a six.
He has an equal chance of rolling a six as a four.
He is more likely to roll a four then a six.
How much taller than Utah's tallest mountain is Colorado's tallest mountain?
There are 9 children in a year 7 class. Students in Year 7 were surveyed to find out how much time they spent studying each day.
The heights of the children, in cm, are as follows:
Select the dot plot that correctly displays the data.
How many students spent one hour or more studying each day?

A spinner is spun once.
Each shape on the wheel has an equal chance.
What is the chance that the spinner lands on the triangle .

Chris did a survey of the number of female toilets in four shopping centres. For three days, Terry counted the colour of cars he saw drive past his house.
The results were recorded in the table below but the key has been left off the graph?
Which column on the graph below shows the total number of Red cars?
The total number of female toilets was 44.
How many toilets does represent in the graph?

Jenny and Sam play a board game with the spinner shown.
Jenny spins the arrow.

On which number is the arrow most likely to stop?
18. Probability, NAP-96383 20. Statistics, NAP-06958
There are 20 raffle tickets, numbered 1 to 20, in a box. Gavin measured the temperature every 3 hours from 6:00 am to 3:00 pm.
Three prizes are given away by choosing three tickets from the box. One ticket can win one prize only.
The first ticket drawn is number 15 and wins the third prize.
Which of the following is not possible?
Second prize is won by number 2.

First prize is won by a prime number. Which graph shows Gavin's results?
Second prize is an even number.

First prize is won by number 15.

This table summarises the time Tutty spent training her parrot over five days.
Time Spent Training the Parrot

Day Time
Clive and Alvin asked their friends how many books they had read in the past month.
Monday 25 minutes
Clive draws a picture graph to show the results for his friends.
Tuesday 55 minutes
Alvin draws a column graph to show the results for his friends.
Wednesday 1 hour
Thursday 94 minutes
Friday 46 minutes
What was the average (mean) time for training the parrot each day?
How many more of Clive's friends read 3-4 books in the last month than Alvin's friends?
Bonny draws the number 1 or 2 on a group of disks, pictured below. The bottles in Renee's fridge are pictured below.
One disk is chosen at random.

Renee decides to make a graph where each bar represents one type of bottle in her fridge.
What is the chance the disk has a 2 drawn on it?

Claudia gets to ring the school bell once every 5 school days.
Today is a school day.
What is the probability that Claudia will ring the school bell?
Renee makes an error when creating the graph.

24. Probability, NAP-06959 What should Renee do to correct the error?
Tony can spin an arrow on any of the spinners below. Make each category bar a different colour.
Which spinner gives Tony the best chance of landing on a number 2? Change the title to 'Number of bottles in the fridge by volume'.
Change the 'Number of bottles' label to 'Volume of bottles'.
Remove the 'Juice' category since orange juice and apple juice are already shown.
26. Statistics, NAP-24566 29. Probability, NAP-12876
The number of students that could solve a Rubik's cube in less than 2 minutes were counted at 7 different Ryan has white and black marbles in his bag.
primary schools.
If he chooses one without looking he is likely, but not certain, to get a white marble.
The results were recorded in the graph below.
Which is Ryan's bag?
How many students, in total, could solve the cube in less than 2 minutes?
Shanka collected data about his friends and recorded the results in the table below.

Shane rolls a standard 6-sided dice once.
Which of the following is Shane most likely to roll?
a number less than 3

a number greater than 2
an even number
the number 3 or 4 How did Shanka order his data?

Shirley uses this net to make a dice.
She rolls the dice once.

What is the chance that Shirley will roll a 2?
The graph shows the origin and type of all vehicles in a city. A survey was conducted that asked students how long it took them to travel to school. This graph show
the results.
9
Number of vehicles (in 1000s)
8
7
6
5
4
Key
3
= Australian vehicles
2
= European vehicles
1
= Asian vehicles
0
Sedans Utility vehicles Trucks and
vans
Types of vehicles
Which statement is most accurate based on the graph?
There are more utility vehicles than trucks and vans. What percentage of students had a commute between 15-30 minutes?
Utility vehicles are the most common type of vehicles less that 25%
There are more Australian vehicles than European vehicles. between 25% and 50%
There are more Asian vehicles than European vehicles. between 50% and 75%
more than 75%
This graph shows the UV index for the town of Coonamble during one day. Peter has a marble bag that contains 20 marbles that are either red or green in colour.
The probability of randomly picking a green marble is 70%.
15 UV index for Coonamble What is the probability of randomly picking a red marble?
Extreme
11 %
UV index
Very high
8
High
6
Moderate
3
Two standard dice are rolled at the same time and the two numbers are added up.
Low
8am 10am 12pm 2pm 4pm 6pm

Time
When was the UV index always in the high range?
between 8 am and 6 pm
between 11 am and 12 pm Which total is most likely?
after 2 pm
between 2 pm and 4 pm

34. Statistics, NAP-72869 A local triathlon club gathers data on its members and displays it in a graph below.
This table shows the number of people who visited a war memorial on weekdays over 4 weeks.
How many members in the triathlon club are 50 or younger?
Which day had the greatest total attendance over the 4 weeks?
Spiro spins the arrow of this spinner 40 times. Ms Granger measured and recorded the heights of all the students in her class, in centimetres.
He records the number of times the arrow lands on each number. She made a dot plot to show the heights of these 32 children.
5 2
3 What fraction of the students' heights are greater than 145 centimetres and less than 150?
4
Which table records the most likely results?
Number 1 2 3 4 5 40. Probability, NAP-25827

Times 10 7 7 6 10
Luigi spins these two arrows. He then adds the numbers in the sections where the arrows stop to get the
total score.
Number 1 2 3 4 5
Times 8 8 8 8 8
1 2 2 3
Number 1 2 3 4 5
Times 12 4 4 8 12
4 6 5 6
Number 1 2 3 4 5
Times 13 5 5 4 13
How many different ways can Luigi get a total of 7?

In Wadonga, there are 29 538 people.
Each day, the average person uses 168 litres of water.
Which of these gives the best estimate for the total number of litres of water used in Wadonga each day?
Mick has a bag of marbles. His marbles are orange, white, blue and green. During picking season, four groups of people were hired to pick apples.
A group will receive a bonus if they pick more than 24 apples per person in a 10-minute period.
The table below shows the total amount of apples picked by each group in the first 10 minutes.
Mick picks one marble from his bag.

Which of the following could be the probability that the marble he picks is green.
Which group would have received a bonus in the first 10-minute period?

This table shows the number of people who visited a war memorial on weekdays over 4 weeks.
The subject choices in science at a high school are physics, chemistry and biology.
This Venn diagram shows the number of students who are studying each of the subjects.
What was the mean (average) number of people who attended the war memorial on Fridays? How many of these students are studying at least two of these science subjects?
Manuela weaves baskets to sell at the markets. Johnson runs 10 laps of a 400 metre running track.
She weaves the same number of baskets each week. He records the time he takes for each lap in a graph.
At the end of each week she adds a point to the graph below that records the total amount of baskets she
has weaved over all weeks combined.
For which lap number did Johnson record his fastest time?
What will be the exact total amount of baskets weaved by Manuella at the end of week 9. 49. Statistics, NAP-78810
Curly measures the position of glaciers in the antarctic.
Baskets
His measurements showed that in 1 full year, a glacier moved 88 cm.
On average, how many centimetres did the glacier move per day?
A car dealership contains 12 black, 8 red, 10 blue, 16 silver and 4 white cars.
Walter wears a blindfold and chooses one car at random.
What is the chance that the car is blue?
50. Probability, NAP-66951 52. Number, NAP-72897
Bellamy creates a game with the spinner shown below. Kat went on holiday and spent her money on accomodation, meals and shopping.
She spent $1200 in total and the pie chart below shows how she spent it.
If the spinner lands on a 3, he wins a prize. How much money did Kat spend on meals on her holiday?
What is the probability that Bellamy will win a prize on his next spin?
51. Probability, NAP-02331 Francis has a bag of marbles.

The number of marbles of each colour is recorded in the table below.
Which spinner does not show a 50-50 chance of landing on the symbol?
Francis randomly takes 1 marble out of her bag without looking.

What is the chance it is green?
54. Number, NAP-06987 56. Probability, NAP-65863
Giselle does odd jobs around the house to earn pocket money. There are 50 marbles in a bag. Twenty marbles are green, the others are yellow.
She gets $3 per job. Wally picks a marble from the bag without looking.
The table below shows all the jobs she did in one week. What is the chance of Wally picking a green marble?
2 in 10 4 in 10 5 in 10 6 in 10

A spinner can land in any of 4 sections, labelled 1 to 4.
The spinner is spun 100 times and the results are recorded in the bar chart below.
If Giselle does the same jobs for two weeks, how much money will she earn altogether?

Matt and Libby love nature and planted 50 trees each over 3 weeks.
The bar chart below shows the number of trees each of them planted in each week.
Which of these spinners is most likely to give results shown in the graph?
How many more trees did Libby plant than Matt in Week 2.
Bradley's class were asked to choose their favourite colour among four choices. A soccer competition has six teams playing on the same day.
5 voted for red The table below shows the draw.
2 voted for orange
6 voted for blue
The rest voted for green
If no match ends in a draw, which of the following is possible?
Tigers and Lions are the only teams that lose.

Lions and Cheetahs both lose.
Meerkats and Civets both win.
Lions, Leopards, Civets and Tigers all win.
How many students in Bradley's class chose green? 61. Number, NAP-90505
The dog population in five continents can be found in the table below.

Quinn owns a cafe.
He wants to estimate the number of females that drink coffee at his store each morning.
Which method of data collection should he use?
Count the number of females walking past the cafe each morning.
Survey the employees about how many females they estimate enter the cafe each morning.
How many more dogs live in Europe than in Africa and South America combined?
Survey the bakery next door about the number of females they serve each morning.
Count the number of females that enter the cafe at different times of the morning.
Count the number of females that enter the cafe at different times throughout the day.
In 2015, the population of Australia was estimated at 24 million. This graph shows a company's profit over a four year period.
The amount of milk consumed in 2015 was 78 million litres.
The average amount of milk consumed by one person in 2015 was closest to

A school canteen has two different types of sandwiches.
Which conclusion can be reached from the graph?
There are 14 chicken sandwiches and 11 vegemite sandwiches.
The profit in Year 2 was one third of the profit in Year 1.
The canteen sells one sandwich to each of the first five students in line at lunch time.
The profit fell by 50% from Year 3 to Year 4.
The table shows the type of sandwich the first five students buy.
The profits were positive in Years 1 and 3, and negative in Years 2 and 4.
The profits were greater than $60 000 in the period between Year 1 and Year 4.

Dom is next in line and asks for a sandwich but doesn't care which type. Nev spins the arrow 50 times.
What is the chance that Dom is given chicken sandwich?

Peter has a bag of marbles. 75% of his marbles are blue.
Peter takes a green marble from his bag and loses it in a game.
If he takes another marble from the bag without looking, what are the chances it is blue?
Which table is most likely to show his result?
less than 75%
equal to 75%
greater than 75%
Lea collects comic books. Shane turned over the cards below and mixes them up.
She sells some of them.
2 5 3 8 2
The selling prices are listed below.
What is their mean (average) price?

2 5 3 8 2
10 2 5 2 8

Shane picks one of these 4 cards at random. 10 2 5 2 8
He selects one at random.

What is the chance of Shane selecting a 2 of spades?
Which number line shows the chance of Shane picking an even number?

The school canteen collected data on the number of lunches that students ordered from the canteen in
one given week.
What was the total number of lunches ordered for the week?
71. Probability, NAP-43461 74. Probability, NAP-59947
Claire baked 18 cookies. Shane rolls a standard six-sided die.
She baked equal numbers of chocolate chip, macadamia nut and plain cookies. Which of the following events has a probability of less than 0.5?
Claire randomly picked one of the cookies. rolling a number greater than 1
What are the chances it was chocolate chip or plain? rolling an odd number
rolling a number less than 6
rolling a number greater than or equal to 6
72. Probability, NAP-90504 75. Probability, NAP-07018

Ricky rolled a standard dice 80 times.
Archer did a survey of his class, asking everyone what their favourite ice cream flavour is.
He recorded if an odd or even number was rolled, each time, and wrote the results in the table below.
This table below shows the results.
What is the difference between the expected number of odd rolls and the actual number recorded?
What is the probability that a randomly selected classmate's favourite flavour is chocolate?
Round your answer to the nearest hundredth.

Albert has 50 marbles in his bag.
He records the colour of each marble in the table below.
This table shows results of a survey on gym memberships. Number of
Marble
marbles
Blue 20
Red 12
Orange 4
White ?
TOTAL 50
In total, how many people over the age of 60 have a monthly bill less than $40? What percentage of the marbles are white?
people %
Jake throws a standard 6 sided die. A survey asked a group of high school students how much they spend on broadband each month.
Which point on the number line best shows the chance of Jake throwing a 4? The result were recorded in the table below.
Monthly broadband spend

Year $20 or less $20 spend $30 $30 or more
7-8 14 16 10
9 - 10 9 17 16
11 - 12 4 21 28
In total, how many students in Year 9 and Year 10 had a monthly broadband spend of more than $20?
Spiro records the number of students who can play different instruments in his class.
He records the results in the table below.

The train travel times between major Australian cities are listed in the table below:
Some students play more than one instrument.

What is the least number of girls that could be in Spiro's class?
The train travel time from Melbourne to Adelaide is about 4 times the travel time from
Over 5 games, Ramesh recorded the following scores when playing cricket. Students at a high school were surveyed to find whether they did exercise before school.
The graph below shows the results.
What was his mean score?

The mean (average) of four numbers is 26.
One more number is added and the mean number becomes 27.
The number added is?
There were 150 17-year-old students at the high school.

How many 17-year-old students responded 'Every Day'?
A standard six-sided dice is rolled once.
What is the probability that the number on the top face is a factor of 4?

Sharon made 24 milkshakes at her nephew's birthday party. The milkshakes were either vanilla
or chocolate.
All the milkshakes were served in an aluminium cup and looked the same.
Murray took one milkshake and had a 1 in 8 chance of taking a vanilla milkshake.
How many chocolate milkshakes did Sharon make?

Rachel has a bag that contains 6 blue and 4 green balls.
She selects one ball at random and records its colour. The ball is then put back into the bag.
Rachel does this 50 times.
How many times should Rachel expect to select a green ball from the bag?
Mea and Jack are playing a dice game. A school's drama class puts on a play over five nights.
They have two standard 6-sided dice. The play is open to the public and the numbers of tickets sold are shown in the table below.
One of the die is white and the other is grey.
Mea needs to roll a total of 11 to win.
There are two different ways she can roll a total of 11 as shown.
Jack has to roll a 6 to win.

How many different ways can Jack roll a total of 6? The cost of each ticket was $15.
What was the mean amount of money collected from ticket sales per night?

A school offers two sports during a summer term.
Students can either play hockey or water polo, but not both. Two fishing boats record the number of tuna they catch on four fishing trips.
One-quarter of all the students play water polo.

How many girls play hockey?
How many more tuna did Boat 2 catch than Boat 1 in total over the four trips.
Mandy surveyed all year 7 students about their favourite flavour of milkshake. Melinda and Cathy run the 100 metre sprint in their school athletics carnival.
A device tracks their progress and the results are graphed below.
20
16
12
Time
(seconds) Key
8
Melinda
Cathy
4
0
Which flavour did 4 out of 10 year 7 students choose as their favourite? 20 40 60 80 100
Metres Run
Melinda starts quickly and passes the 75 metre mark after 10 seconds, slowing down as the race
progresses.
92. Statistics, NAP-19971 Cathy is slower but runs the whole race at the same speed.
Angus asked all the students in his primary school how far away they lived from school. How long after Melinda did Cathy pass the 75 metre mark in the race?
He used the results to create the bar chart below but left off some labels.
seconds

A random sample of people were asked what their favourite winter sport was.
The table below recorded the results.
Angus' primary school has 100 students.

How many students lived over 8 km from school?
Using the data from the survey, predict how many people would choose rugby league if 2000 people were
surveyed.
The Stars and the Thunder are playing cricket in a 20 over competition. Tom collected data on the number of big game animals in an African wildlife park.
The stem-and-leaf plots show the number of runs each side has scored in their last 15 games. This graph shows how many big game animals lived in the park.
Select all the true statements about the data.
The Stars had the lowest run score. There were 16 more elephants than rhinos in the wildlife park.
The Stars had the highest run score. How many big game animals were in the park in total?
The Stars scored over 135 runs more times than the Thunder.
The median score for The Stars is higher than the median score for The Thunder.
The range of scores for The Stars is smaller than the range of scores for The Thunder.
96. Statistics, NAP-73280 Each bar on this graph shows the population of a country and the population of its capital city.
A policeman is recording the speed of 25 cars travelling on a highway using a speed gun. The white section is the population that lives in the capital city.
The results are shown in the stem-and-leaf plot. The black section is the population that lives outside the capital city.
Stem Leaf
9 0 5
10 1 2 3 5 5 5 Key
11 1 2 7 8 9 11/5 = 115 km per hour
12 1 3 4 5 6 7
13 0 2 2 3 8 9
What is the median speed?
kilometres per hour

Which of the following countries has the highest percentage of its population living in its capital city?
99. Probability, NAP-95356 Worked Solutions
In any standard six-sided dice, the sum of the opposite faces is 7.
Milo rolls 3 dice and the total of the top faces is 5. 1. Statistics, NAP-37651
What is the sum of the three opposite faces?
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Times 13 5 5 4 13


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2.

How students get to school

Use the information in the graph to complete this table.

Horse/Walk Car Bus

In total, which sport was participated in the most times?

On which days did the newsagent sell 23 lottery tickets?

Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday

Around a quarter of her students preferred which fruit?

He is more likely to roll a six than a four.

Select the dot plot that correctly displays the data.

13. Probability, NAP-12873

Each shape on the wheel has an equal chance.

What is the chance that the spinner lands on the triangle .

The total number of female toilets was 44.

How many toilets does represent in the graph?

17. Probability, NAP-42308

Jenny spins the arrow.

Second prize is won by number 2.

Second prize is an even number.

19. Statistics, NAP-08217

Time Spent Training the Parrot

One disk is chosen at random.

23. Probability, NAP-13994

Renee makes an error when creating the graph.

27. Probability, NAP-72865

a number less than 3

28. Probability, NAP-84558

She rolls the dice once.

Which statement is most accurate based on the graph?

8am 10am 12pm 2pm 4pm 6pm

When was the UV index always in the high range?

37. Statistics, NAP-66952

How many members in the triathlon club are 50 or younger?

Which table records the most likely results?

Number 1 2 3 4 5 40. Probability, NAP-25827

41. Statistics, NAP-72891

Mick picks one marble from his bag.

43. Statistics, NAP-61202

53. Probability, NAP-06989

51. Probability, NAP-02331 Francis has a bag of marbles.

Francis randomly takes 1 marble out of her bag without looking.

57. Probability, NAP-77555

55. Statistics, NAP-30513

If no match ends in a draw, which of the following is possible?

Tigers and Lions are the only teams that lose.

59. Statistics, NAP-37546

63. Probability, NAP-37577

66. Probability, NAP-12906

64. Probability, NAP-72898

What is their mean (average) price?

68. Probability, NAP-96445

He selects one at random.

70. Statistics, NAP-78842

72. Probability, NAP-90504 75. Probability, NAP-07018

76. Probability, NAP-18850

Monthly broadband spend

80. Statistics, NAP-42371

Some students play more than one instrument.

82. Statistics, NAP-55322