Coins: Fluency & Practice
Mathematics
GCSE Higher
12 questions
~24 mins
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A worksheet focused on understanding and calculating simple probabilities involving coins, designed for GCSE Higher students to develop procedural mastery and reasoning skills.
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Coins: Fluency & Practice
Subject: MathematicsGrade: GCSE Higher
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Grade GCSE Higher
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Practice Questions
Answer all questions. Show your working in the grid spaces provided.
1.
If a fair coin is flipped once, what is the probability of getting heads?
[1 mark]2.
Calculate the probability of flipping a coin twice and getting exactly one head.
[2 marks]3.
A coin is flipped three times. What is the probability of getting three heads?
[2 marks]4.
Construct a tree diagram to list all possible outcomes when flipping two coins.
[3 marks]5.
What is the probability of obtaining at least one head in two flips of a fair coin?
[2 marks]6.
In a game, a coin is flipped, and the player wins if it lands tails. What is the probability of winning?
[1 mark]7.
A fair coin is flipped four times. What is the probability of getting exactly two heads?
[3 marks]8.
A coin is flipped three times. List all outcomes where exactly two heads appear.
[3 marks]9.
Calculate the probability of getting a tail on the first flip and a head on the second flip.
[2 marks]10.
A coin is flipped three times. What is the probability that the sequence is Tails, Heads, Tails?
[2 marks]11.
A coin that is biased so that the probability of heads is 0.6 is flipped twice. What is the probability of getting exactly one head?
[4 marks]12.
Identify and correct the common mistake: A student claims that the probability of getting at least one head in three flips of a fair coin is 0.25.
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- 1/1/2026
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- 1/1/2026
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