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Probability

Multiple Choice
Identify the choice that best completes the statement or answers the question.

____ 1. A yogurt shop offers 7 different flavors of frozen yogurt and 12 different toppings. How many choices are
possible for a single serving of frozen yogurt with one topping?
a. 49 b. 84 c. 3,991,680 d. 144
____ 2. Suppose Ruth Ann has 4 routes she can choose from to get from school to the library, and 6 routes from the
library to her home. How many routes are there from Ruth Ann’s school to her home with a stop at the
library?
a. 360 b. 24 c. 36 d. 16
____ 3. In how many different orders can you line up 5 cards on a table?
a. 1 b. 120 c. 5 d. 20
____ 4. Verne has 8 math books to line up on a shelf. Jenny has 7 English books to line up on a shelf. In how many
more orders can Verne line up his books than Jenny?
a. 5,040 b. 35,280 c. 40,320 d. 7
____ 5. The Booster Club sells meals at basketball games. Each meal comes with a choice of hamburgers, pizza, hot
dogs, cheeseburgers, or tacos, and a choice of root beer, lemonade, milk, coffee, tea, or cola. How many
possible meal combinations are there?
a. 10 b. 11 c. 28 d. 30
____ 6. Lynn and Dawn tossed a coin 40 times and got heads 18 times. What is the experimental probability of
tossing heads using Lynn and Dawn’s results?
a. 9 b. 9 c. 20 d. 11
11 20 9 20
____ 7. A bag contains 7 red marbles, 4 white marbles, and 5 blue marbles. Find P(red or blue).
a. 3 b. 11 c. 35 d. 4
4 16 16 5
____ 8. A bag contains 9 red marbles, 7 white marbles, and 5 blue marbles. Find P(red and blue).
a. 0 b. 7 c. 15 d. 16
10 7 21
____ 9. A biologist has determined that a particular osprey has a 70% chance of catching a fish on any given day.
Carry out a simulation of twenty trials using the random number table below to find the probability that the
osprey will actually catch a fish on all of the next three days. Explain your method.

945 025 354 793 236

106 746 981 105 012
832 180 250 871 835
793 726 864 496 947

a. Using the digits 0–7 to represent a caught fish, the probability of catching a fish on each of
the next three days is 70%.
b. Using the digits 0–7 to represent a caught fish, the probability of catching a fish on each of
the next three days is 65%.
c. Using the digits 0–6 to represent a caught fish, the probability of catching a fish on each of
the next three days is 35%.
d. Using the digits 0–7 to represent a caught fish, the probability of catching a fish on each of
the next three days is 7%.

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____ 10. This is a spinner used in a board game. What is the probability that the spinner will land on a multiple of 3
and 4?

a. b. c. d.

____ 11. A spinner is numbered from 1 through 10 with each number equally likely to occur. What is the probability of
obtaining a number less than 4 or greater than 8 in a single spin?
a. 3 b. 2 c. 1 d. 2
5 5 2
____ 12. Teesha is in the French club. There are 20 students in the club. The French teacher will pick two students at
random to guide visiting students from France. What is the probability that Teesha will not be picked as a
guide?
a. 1 b. 19 c. 1 d. 9
19 20 10 10
____ 13. What is the theoretical probability of being dealt exactly three 4's in a 5-card hand from a standard 52-card
deck?

a. 2162 c. 2
54145 759
b. 94 d. 2
54145 33
____ 14. If a dart hits the target at random, what is the probability that it will land in the shaded region?

12 in.

3 in.

Drawing not to scale

a. 1 b. 1 c. 1 d. 16

4 16 16

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____ 15. On the following dartboard, the radius of the bulls-eye (area A) is 4 inches. The radius of each concentric
circle is 4 inches more than the circle inside it. If a person throws randomly onto the dartboard, what is the
probability that the dart will hit in area B?

a. b. c. d.

____ 16. Suppose Q and R are independent events. Find P(Q and R).
P(Q) = 0.39, P(R) = 0.85
a. 1.24 b. 0.3315 c. 0.46 d. 0.1794
____ 17. Two urns contain white balls and yellow balls. The first urn contains 9 white balls and 9 yellow balls and the
second urn contains 8 white balls and 3 yellow balls. A ball is drawn at random from each urn. What is the
probability that both balls are white?
a. 4 b. 17 c. d. 17
11 29 198

Suppose S and T are mutually exclusive events. Find P(S or T).

____ 18. P(S) = 20%, P(T) = 22%

a. 2% b. 440% c. 42% d. 4.4%
____ 19. If all possible results are equally likely, what is the probability that a spin of the spinner will land on an upper
case letter or a consonant?

a. 0.9 b. 0.7 c. 0.5 d. 0.3

____ 20. Using a sixteen-sided number cube, what is the probability that you will roll an even number or an odd prime
number? Round to three decimals.
a. 0.063 b. 0.813 c. 0.219 d. 0.875
____ 21. A jar contains 7 blue cubes, 4 blue spheres, 5 green cubes, and 6 green spheres. If you select an object at
random, what is the probability that the object is green or a cube?

a. 23 c. 9
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b.5 d. 4
22
____ 22. Joey’s sock drawer is unorganized and contains 7 black dress socks, 7 black ankle socks, 6 brown dress socks,
and 2 brown ankle socks. What is the probability that Joey will blindly reach into his sock drawer and pull
out a sock that is brown or a dress sock?

a. 15 c.3
22 11
b. 4 d. 21
22
____ 23. The table shows the results of a survey of students in two math classes.
Find P(more than 1 hour of TV | 6th period class). Round to the nearest thousandth.

Did You Watch More Than One Hour of TV Last Night?

Yes No
3rd period class 6 10
6th period class 9 6

a. 0.375 b. 0.400 c. 0.600 d. 0.563

____ 24. Each person in a group of students was identified by year and asked when he or she preferred taking classes:
in the morning, afternoon, or evening. The results are shown in the table. Find the probability that the student
preferred afternoon classes given he or she is a junior. Round to the nearest thousandth.

When Do You Prefer to Take Classes?

Freshman Sophomore Junior Senior
Morning 19 2 6 16
Afternoon 17 3 13 15
Evening 8 14 9 7

a. 0.571 b. 0.464 c. 0.342 d. 0.158

____ 25. The table shows the results of a survey of college students. Find the probability that a student’s first class of
the day is a humanities class, given the student is male. Round to the nearest thousandth.

First Class of the Day for College Students

Male Female
Humanities 70 80
Science 50 80
Other 60 70

a. 0.171 b. 0.467 c. 0.269 d. 0.389

____ 26. The probability that a city bus is ready for service when needed is 85%. The probability that a city bus is
ready for service and has a working radio is 67%. Find the probability that a bus chosen at random has a
working radio given that it is ready for service. Round to the nearest tenth of a percent.
a. 18.0% b. 12.7% c. 82.8% d. 78.8%
____ 27. The probability that a student at certain high school likes art is 36%. The probability that a student who likes
art also likes science is 21%. Find the probability that a student chosen at random likes science given that he
or she likes art. Round to the nearest tenth of a percent.
a. 15.0% b. 58.3% c. 61.3% d. 17.1%

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____ 28. The probability that a dessert sold at a certain cafe contains chocolate is 86%. The probability that a dessert
containing chocolate also contains nuts is 30%. Find the probability that a dessert chosen at random contains
nuts given that it contains chocolate. Round to the nearest tenth of a percent.
a. 36.6% b. 28.7% c. 34.9% d. 56.0%
____ 29. A class of 40 students has 11 honor students and 10 athletes. Three of the honor students are also athletes.
One student is chosen at random. Find the probability that this student is an athlete if it is known that the
student is not an honor student. Round to the nearest thousandth.
a. 0.241 b. 0.345 c. 0.252 d. 0.034
____ 30. An airline has 90% of its flights depart on schedule. It has 71% of its flights depart and arrive on schedule.
Find the probability that a flight that departs on schedule also arrives on schedule.
a. 0.39 b. 0.79 c. 0.09 d. 1.49
____ 31. On St. Patrick’s Day, you took note of who was coming into your restaurant wearing green. What is the
probability that someone was wearing green given that the customer is female?
Wearing Green Not Wearing Green
Male 56 70
Female 29 83

a. 0.5 b. 5.23 c. 0.259 d. 0.23

Find the mean, median, and mode of the data set. Round to the nearest tenth.

____ 32. 2, 10, 6, 9, 1, 15, 11, 10, 15, 13, 15

a. mean = 9.7, b. mean = 8.9, c. mean = 9.7, d. mean = 8.9,
median = 10, median = 10, median = 8, mode median = 10,
mode = 15 mode = 8 =15 mode = 15

Find the outlier in the set of data.

____ 33. 3.4, 4.8, 3.1, 0.2, 6.9, 5.5, 6.6, 5.1
a. 3.1 b. 0.2 c. 5.1 d. 5.1
____ 34. 17, 13, 16, 18, 38, 14, 21, 24
a. 38 b. 14 c. 16 d. 17
____ 35. Over the first five years of owning her car, Gina drove about 12,700 miles the first year, 15,478 miles the
second year, 12,675 the third year, 11,850 the fourth year, and 13,075 the fifth year.
a. Find the mean, median, and mode of this data.
b. Explain which measure of central tendency will best predict how many miles Gina will drive in the sixth
year.
a. mean = 12,700; median = 13,156; no mode; the mean is the best choice because it is
representative of the entire data set.
b. mean = 13,156; median = 12,700; mode = 3,628; the median is the best choice because it
is not skewed by the high outlier.
c. mean = 13,156; median = 12,700; no mode; the mean is the best choice because it is
representative of the entire data set.
d. mean = 13,156; median = 12,700; no mode; the median is the best choice because it is not
skewed by the high outlier.

Make a box-and-whisker plot of the data.

____ 36. 24, 18, 29, 21, 16, 23, 13, 11

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Probability
Answer Section

MULTIPLE CHOICE

1.B
2.B
3.B
4.B
5.D
6.B
7.A
8.A
9.C
10. D
11. C
12. D
13. B
14. C
15. A
16. B
17. A
18. C
19. A
20. B
21. C
22. A
23. C
24. B
25. D
26. D
27. B

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28. C
29. A
30. B
31. C
32. A
33. B
34. A
35. D
36. A

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