The probability of a Probability question appearing in your exams is probably 1, so Miss Loi probably thinks that it’s probably a good idea to finally include a probability problem here. (Try saying this in 5 seconds!)
Anyway, students should be alert to the fact that probability questions tend to be a little long-winded, low on mathematical figures/notations but high on rhetorics.
Sometimes you feel like you’re doing English comprehension right in the middle of your Maths paper, like this:
Lure by the promises of exotic virgins, endless rivers of wine, treasures of gold, meeting the Venerable Miss Loi and attaining Mathematical salvation, a gallant knight named John one day decides to embark on a quest to discover the whereabouts of Miss Loi’s Temple once and for all.
As such, this brave knight shall journey once a week (in shining armour and all) into the deep recesses of Novena, and brave the dangers that lurk within, till he finds the elusive Temple.
The probability of Sir John finding Miss Loi’s Temple in each journey to Novena is 1/5.
- Expressing your answers as fractions, find the probability that Sir John
- fails to find it in the first journey but finds it in the second journey.
- finds it either in the first or second week.
- fails to find it in the first three journeys.
- finds it in one of the first five weeks.
- Find the probability, in terms of n, that Sir John finds the Temple in one of the first n weeks.
Frankly this question is not difficult but a curious number of students contrive to get it wrong. The real danger here is probably that big mess of words designed to confuse the knight out of you. So read carefully.
What will John do when he finds the Temple eventually? Will he still make another journey the following week?
In the diagram, ABCD is a square of 5cm. Find the area of the shaded region.
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The 7 Threats Of Highly Effective Tutoring: The Threat Of Pwnage
(5)Tutors (at least those who’ve been around as long as Miss Loi) will undoubtedly face lazy, act-smart, mischievous, evil (in short: LAME) students at some point in our underrated careers.
Grave tales of many a
noobyoung aspiring tutor being reduced to an emotional heap by these merciless LAMErs serve as sombre reminders of the occupational hazards we brave tutors face each day.As a little public service to help to all young padawan tutors caught up in a tangle with LAME students, Miss Loi shall, in the coming weeks, systematically unveil her arsenal of threats used to counter these perils to our livelihoods.
The Threat of Pwnage
To test their understanding, students are normally required to attempt impromptu questions in the middle of their lesson with Miss Loi.
Miss Loi: “Ok, now please try this question from your Ten-Year Series.”
LAME student: “Walau, Teacher you very good! Ask me to do question so that you can relax and SLACK at the side right?!”
Miss Loi: “You say I SLACK?! Fine. Do ALL the questions from topics X, Y, Z. We shall go through them in the next lesson so that I’ll have no time to slack!”
LAME student: “No no no … just joking. You’re not slack. =_=”
Just pwned another one last week
Stay tuned for more threats!