Probability Practice – Day 2

1) What is the probability of drawing a card from a standard deck of 52 cards and then drawing a
second card without replacing the first) and both cards are face cards (king or queen or jack)?

2) A container contains 2 pink, 6 red and 4 blue marbles. If you pick one marble without looking, what
is the probability that the marble you pick will be red or blue?

3) What is the probability of picking an orange candy?

4) How many different outfits are possible with 5 pairs of jeans, 11 T-shirts and 2 pairs of shoes?

5) Find P(not A). (You’re looking for the probability of the spinner not landing on A.)

6) What is the theoretical probability of rolling an even number on a six-sided die?

7) How do you write 0.02 as a percent?

8) You flip the same coin three times. Find the probability that all flips will land as tails.

9) A four-person committee is to be formed from 15 male and 5 female volunteers.

Find the probability that all are female.

10) Gabriel has these cans of soup in his kitchen cabinet.

• 2 cans tomato soup • 3 cans chicken soup • 2 cans cheese soup
• 2 cans potato soup • 1 can beef soup
Gabriel will randomly choose one can of soup. Then he will put it back and randomly choose
another can of soup. What is the probability that he will choose a can of tomato soup and then a
can of cheese soup?
Solutions
12 11 132 11
1) 𝑃(𝑓𝑎𝑐𝑒 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑓𝑎𝑐𝑒) = ∙ = 2652 = 221 ≈ 0.0498 ≈ 4.98% This is dependent probability.
52 51

6 4 10 5
2) 𝑃(𝑟𝑒𝑑 𝑜𝑟 𝑏𝑙𝑢𝑒) = 𝑃(𝑟𝑒𝑑) + 𝑃(𝑏𝑙𝑢𝑒) = 12
+
12
=
12
=
6

- OR LIKE THIS -
10 5
𝑃(𝑟𝑒𝑑 𝑜𝑟 𝑏𝑙𝑢𝑒) = =6 (because there are 10 total red or blue marbles)
12

3) 1 or 100%

4) 5*11*2 = 110 outfits

6 3
5) 𝑃(𝑛𝑜𝑡 𝐴) = = = 0.75 = 75%
8 4

6)Theoretical probability means what should happen. A die has 3 odd and 3 even #’s.
1
𝑃(𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑛) = = 0.5 = 50%
2
7) 2%

1 1 1 1
8) 𝑃(𝑡𝑎𝑖𝑙𝑠 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑡𝑎𝑖𝑙𝑠 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑡𝑎𝑖𝑙𝑠) = ∙ ∙ =8 This is an independent
2 2 2
probability.

5 4 3 1
9) 𝑃(𝑓𝑒𝑚𝑎𝑙𝑒 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑓𝑒𝑚𝑎𝑙𝑒 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑓𝑒𝑚𝑎𝑙𝑒) = 20 ∙ 19 ∙ 18 = 114 ≈ 0.00877 ≈ 0.877% Dependent
probability.

2 2 1
10) 𝑃(𝑡𝑜𝑚𝑎𝑡𝑜 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑐ℎ𝑒𝑒𝑠𝑒) = 10 ∙ 10 = 25 = 0.04 = 4% This is an independent probability.

Some problems allow you to take a brute force approach. For example, the question about flipping the
same coin three times would be easy enough to figure if you listed the possible outcomes. Then the
probability would be the # of ways to get what you want (TTT) divided by # of possibilities (8).