There are 400 students at a school in a certain country. Each student was asked whether they preferred swimming, cycling or running and the results are given in the following table.

| | Swimming | Cycling | Running |
|-----------|----------|---------|---------|
| Female | 104 | 50 | 66 |
| Male | 31 | 57 | 92 |

A student is chosen at random.
On average at all the schools in this country 30% of the students do not like any sports.

Q: What topic does this question test?

This question tests Probability and statistics in A-Level Mathematics (syllabus code 9709). It is worth 11 marks.

Q: Which exam paper is this question from?

This question appeared in the Cambridge A-Level Mathematics Feb/Mar 2021 examination, Paper 5 Variant 2 (9709_m21_qp_52.pdf).

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There are 400 students at a school in a certain country. Each student was asked whether they preferred swimming, cycling or running and the results are given in the following table.

|           | Swimming | Cycling | Running |
|-----------|----------|---------|---------|
| Female    | 104      | 50      | 66      |
| Male      | 31       | 57      | 92      |

A student is chosen at random.
On average at all the schools in this country 30% of the students do not like any sports.

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