NECO Mathematics · Statistics and Probability
Probability: NECO Mathematics Past Questions and Answers
What the WAEC syllabus covers in Probability
Our summary: Working out the chance of events, alone or combined.
- Experimental and theoretical probability
- Addition of probabilities for mutually exclusive and independent events
- Multiplication of probabilities for independent events
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NECO Mathematics questions on Probability
- NECO 2008Bello chooses a number randomly from 1 to 10. What is the probability that it is either odd or prime?
- NECO 2008The chances of Usman and Dele passing a Mathematics test are 3/5 and 1/3, respectively. What is the probability that neither of them passes the test?
- NECO 2005A bag contains 4 blue and 8 red identical balls. If two balls are picked at random with replacement, what is the probability of picking two balls of different…
- NECO 2005Two fair dice are tossed together once. What is the probability of getting a total of at least 9 from the outcome?
- NECO 2004A bag Contains 2 red, 3 blue and 4 green identical balls. If two balls are picked at random one after the other without replacement, what is the probability…
- NECO 2002The probability that a student will pass a mathematics test is ⅗. If 3 students are chosen at random, what is the probability that at least 2 of them will pass…
- NECO 2002A petrol attendant recorded the number of vehicles that bought petrol from him for -3 hours and recorded 12 cars and 27 buses. What is the probability that the…
- NECO 2002One bag contains 4 white balls and 2 black balls. Another bag contains 3 white balls and 5 black balls, if one ball is drawn from each bag, what is the…
- NECO 200151 women wore coloured shoes to a party, out of which 21 wore purple and 9 wore white. if a woman is selected at Random. What is the probability that she is…
- NECO 2001Two beads are drawn at random, one after the other, with replacement, from a box containing 5 red and 7 white identical beads. What is the probability that the…
Years with Probability questions in DeeepSolve's question bank
From the past questions DeeepSolve holds, not a count of everything the exam body has set.
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- 2001