Probability Unit Test Review Guide Name:___________________________

Date:__________________ Pd: ___

1. You are assigned a combination for your school gym locker. The combinations come in the
form A-A-A-1-1-1, where the first three spots are letters and the next three spots are
numbers. How many different locker combinations are there for the gym teachers to use?

2. If you flip a coin 10 times you obtain the following results: H, H, T, T, H, H, H, T, H, H. What
is the probability of getting tails on the next flip? Explain your outcome (use the words
“experimental” and “theoretical”).

3. The volleyball team is waiting to hear when they will have their final playoff game. What is the
probability that the day of the week that the game lands on starts with a T or an S?

4. Simplify: C3
12

5. Simplify: 5P4

6. How many ways can a coach pick the three team representatives from his team of 10 players?

7. How many ways can 7 ballerinas line up to get on stage?

8. The table below shows the types of cars that are sitting in a lot waiting to be sold.

Domestic Import
Used 29 21
New 41 49

a. If you randomly select a car from the lot, what is the probability that the car will
be a Domestic Used car?

b. If you were looking at a lot with 280 total cars, how many new domestic cars
would you expect to find?

9. If you are choosing marbles (without replacement) from a bag of 4 red, 5 green, 2 blue and 9
yellow marbles, what is the probability that you choose a red marble and then another red
marble?

10.If you are choosing marbles (with replacement) from a bag of 4 red, 5 green, 2 blue and 9
yellow marbles, what is the probability that you choose a blue marble and then a green
marble?

11.If you are choosing marbles (without replacement) from a bag of 4 red, 5 green, 2 blue and 9
yellow marbles, what is the probability that you choose a yellow marble, followed by a blue
marble, followed by a white marble?

12.Out of a group of 28 people, 7 watched 1 hour of TV a night, 14 watched 2 hours of TV a

night, 4 watched 3 hours of TV a night, and 3 watched 4 hours of TV a night. If one person
was chosen at random what would be the expected amount of television watched in a night?