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Knock-out

Stage: 5 Challenge Level: Challenge Level:1

Before a knockout tournament with 2^n players I pick two players. What is the probability that they have to play against each other at some point in the tournament?

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Probability Resources

Stage: 4 Challenge Level: Challenge Level:1

This set of resources for teachers offers interactive environments to support probability work at Key Stage 4.

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The Birthday Bet

Stage: 4 Challenge Level: Challenge Level:2 Challenge Level:2

The next ten people coming into a store will be asked their birthday. If the prize is £20, would you bet £1 that two of these ten people will have the same birthday ?

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Bet You a Million

Stage: 4 Challenge Level: Challenge Level:3 Challenge Level:3 Challenge Level:3

Heads or Tails - the prize doubles until you win it. How much would you pay to play?

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Fixing the Odds

Stage: 4 Challenge Level: Challenge Level:3 Challenge Level:3 Challenge Level:3

You have two bags, four red balls and four white balls. You must put all the balls in the bags although you are allowed to have one bag empty. How should you distribute the balls between the two. . . .

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How Many Balls?

Stage: 5 Challenge Level: Challenge Level:1

A bag contains red and blue balls. You are told the probabilities of drawing certain combinations of balls. Find how many red and how many blue balls there are in the bag.

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Voting Paradox

Stage: 4 and 5 Challenge Level: Challenge Level:2 Challenge Level:2

Some relationships are transitive, such as `if A>B and B>C then it follows that A>C', but some are not. In a voting system, if A beats B and B beats C should we expect A to beat C?

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The Random World

Stage: 2, 3, 4 and 5

Think that a coin toss is 50-50 heads or tails? Read on to appreciate the ever-changing and random nature of the world in which we live.

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Taking Chances Extended

Stage: 4 and 5

This article, for students and teachers, is mainly about probability, the mathematical way of looking at random chance.

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The Better Bet

Stage: 4 Challenge Level: Challenge Level:1

So which is the better bet? Both games cost £1 to play. Getting two heads and two tails for £3 or £2 for every six when three dice are rolled.

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Chances Are

Stage: 4 Challenge Level: Challenge Level:2 Challenge Level:2

Which of these games would you play to give yourself the best possible chance of winning a prize?

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FA Cup

Stage: 5 Challenge Level: Challenge Level:3 Challenge Level:3 Challenge Level:3

In four years 2001 to 2004 Arsenal have been drawn against Chelsea in the FA cup and have beaten Chelsea every time. What was the probability of this? Lots of fractions in the calculations!

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Playing Squash

Stage: 5

Playing squash involves lots of mathematics. This article explores the mathematics of a squash match and how a knowledge of probability could influence the choices you make.

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Snooker Frames

Stage: 5 Challenge Level: Challenge Level:1

It is believed that weaker snooker players have a better chance of winning matches over eleven frames (i.e. first to win 6 frames) than they do over fifteen frames. Is this true?

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Snooker

Stage: 5 Challenge Level: Challenge Level:1

A player has probability 0.4 of winning a single game. What is his probability of winning a 'best of 15 games' tournament?

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Squash

Stage: 5 Challenge Level: Challenge Level:3 Challenge Level:3 Challenge Level:3

If the score is 8-8 do I have more chance of winning if the winner is the first to reach 9 points or the first to reach 10 points?

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Coin Tossing Games

Stage: 4 Challenge Level: Challenge Level:2 Challenge Level:2

You and I play a game involving successive throws of a fair coin. Suppose I pick HH and you pick TH. The coin is thrown repeatedly until we see either two heads in a row (I win) or a tail followed by. . . .

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Teams

Stage: 5 Challenge Level: Challenge Level:1

Two brothers belong to a club with 10 members. Four are selected for a match. Find the probability that both brothers are selected.

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Win or Lose?

Stage: 4 Challenge Level: Challenge Level:2 Challenge Level:2

A gambler bets half the money in his pocket on the toss of a coin, winning an equal amount for a head and losing his money if the result is a tail. After 2n plays he has won exactly n times. Has. . . .

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Put Out

Stage: 5 Challenge Level: Challenge Level:3 Challenge Level:3 Challenge Level:3

After transferring balls back and forth between two bags the probability of selecting a green ball from bag 2 is 3/5. How many green balls were in bag 2 at the outset?

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Introducing Distributions

Stage: 4 Challenge Level: Challenge Level:2 Challenge Level:2

When five dice are rolled together which do you expect to see more often, no sixes or all sixes ?

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Interactive Spinners

Stage: 3 and 4 Challenge Level: Challenge Level:1

This interactivity invites you to make conjectures and explore probabilities of outcomes related to two independent events.

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Scratch Cards

Stage: 4 Challenge Level: Challenge Level:3 Challenge Level:3 Challenge Level:3

To win on a scratch card you have to uncover three numbers that add up to more than fifteen. What is the probability of winning a prize?

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Balls and Bags

Stage: 4 Challenge Level: Challenge Level:2 Challenge Level:2

Two bags contain different numbers of red and blue balls. A ball is removed from one of the bags. The ball is blue. What is the probability that it was removed from bag A?

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Gambling at Monte Carlo

Stage: 4 Challenge Level: Challenge Level:3 Challenge Level:3 Challenge Level:3

A man went to Monte Carlo to try and make his fortune. Whilst he was there he had an opportunity to bet on the outcome of rolling dice. He was offered the same odds for each of the. . . .

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Limiting Probabilities

Stage: 5 Challenge Level: Challenge Level:3 Challenge Level:3 Challenge Level:3

Given probabilities of taking paths in a graph from each node, use matrix multiplication to find the probability of going from one vertex to another in 2 stages, or 3, or 4 or even 100.

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Thank Your Lucky Stars

Stage: 4 Challenge Level: Challenge Level:2 Challenge Level:2

A counter is placed in the bottom right hand corner of a grid. You toss a coin and move the star according to the following rules: ... What is the probability that you end up in the top left-hand. . . .

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Distribution Differences

Stage: 4 Challenge Level: Challenge Level:2 Challenge Level:2

How could you compare different situation where something random happens ? What sort of things might be the same ? What might be different ?

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Card Game (a Simple Version of Clock Patience)

Stage: 4 Challenge Level: Challenge Level:2 Challenge Level:2

Four cards are shuffled and placed into two piles of two. Starting with the first pile of cards - turn a card over... You win if all your cards end up in the trays before you run out of cards in. . . .

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Succession in Randomia

Stage: 5 Challenge Level: Challenge Level:1

By tossing a coin one of three princes is chosen to be the next King of Randomia. Does each prince have an equal chance of taking the throne?

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Football World Cup Simulation

Stage: 2, 3 and 4 Challenge Level: Challenge Level:1

A maths-based Football World Cup simulation for teachers and students to use.

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Rain or Shine

Stage: 5 Challenge Level: Challenge Level:2 Challenge Level:2

Predict future weather using the probability that tomorrow is wet given today is wet and the probability that tomorrow is wet given that today is dry.

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Stats Statements

Stage: 5 Challenge Level: Challenge Level:1

Are these statistical statements sometimes, always or never true? Or it is impossible to say?