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PROBABILITY STUDY GUIDE

1) A card is drawn at random from a standard deck of cards. What is the probability of drawing
a king?
a) 1/52

b) 1/12

c) 1/13

d) 1/26

2) A marble bag contains 3 red marbles, 4 gray marbles, 6 white marbles and 5 black marbles.
What is the probability of randomly drawing a red marble and then a gray marble if the first
marble is replaced?
a) 2/51

b) 4/81

c) 1/36

d) 1/27

Determine whether the events are independent or dependent.

3) A teacher asks each student in the class to think of a number between 1 and 100. Brooke
picks 23 and Shari picks 88.

4) Cameron picks a card from a deck of cards and keeps it. Then Ryan picks a card.

5) A bag contains 7 blue marbles and 7 green marbles. Which shows the likelihood of choosing
a blue marble?
a) impossible

b) unlikely

c) as likely as not

d) likely

6) A restaurant offers four appetizers, ten entrees and three desserts. How many different
possible combinations are there?

7) A survey showed that soccer is the favorite sport for 32 out of 50 people. Which percent is
closest to the experimental probability that a persons favorite sport will not be soccer?
a) 18%

b) 36%

c) 32%

d) 64%

A spinner has 9 equal spaces numbered 1-9.

8) What is P(spinning a 6)?

9) What is P(spinning a multiple of 3)?

10) What is P(spinning an even number or a 5)?

11) The gym teacher records free-throw results for 5 students in gym class. Suppose the teacher
lets Gilberto and Yang take one more free throw each. Compare the probability that Gilberto
will make the shot to the probability that Yang will make the shot.
Student
Nestor
Iris
Gilberto
Yang
Garth

Number of Free Throws

Made
39
14
22
5
31

Number of Free Throws

Attempted
55
36
36
9
60

a) Gilberto is more likely than Yang to make the shot.

b) Gilberto is just as likely as Yang to make the shot.
c) Gilberto is less likely than Yang to make the shot.

12) How many different ways can the letters LMNOPQ be arranged?

13) Chris has 30 red tiles, 12 green tiles and 15 blue tiles. What is the probability Chris will
pick a green tile then a blue tile (assuming he keeps his green tile)?

14) Make a tree diagram showing all the ways you can wear the following:
Black shoes

Red Pants

Purple shirt

Brown shoes

Blue Pants

Yellow shirt

Orange Pants

Red shirt
Blue shirt

How many outcomes are there?

Suppose a friend wants to play a game with you. She says, Lets roll two number cubes 10
times and find the sum of each roll. If the sum is 1, 2, 3, 4, 10, 11 or 12, you win. If the sum is
5, 6, 7, 8, or 9, I win.
15) Would you want to play this game? Why or why not?

16) Who would win most often? Explain.

17) How could you change the rules to make it equally likely for each player to win?