Find the Probability of Combined Events in Two Way Tables

In this worksheet, students will find the probability of combined events using two way tables.

Key stage: KS 3

Year: Year 8 Maths worksheets

Curriculum topic: Probability

Curriculum subtopic: Enumerate Sets Using Tables, Grids and Diagrams

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Worksheet Overview

In this activity, we are going to look at representing more than one event in a two way table, which we can then use to identify probability.

This two way table shows how a group of students get to school.

two way table

Example

One student is picked at random.

What is the probability that they cycled to school?

We could write this as 30/105

Did you spot that both numbers are divisible by 15?

It can be reduced to 2/7

Are you ready to try?

boy on bike

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