1. A card is drawn from an ordinary deck. 4.

Find the probability that two of the tree

Find are probability of getting a king, children are women, if a family has 3
getting the 8 of clubs, getting a 9 or a children.
hearts, and getting 5 or 8?

5. A regular, sex-sided die rolled once. What

is the probability that a
number greater than 3 is
obtained?

2. A bag contains 52 marbles. Of them 38

are black and 14 are blue. If one marble is
randomly selected out of this hat, what is
the probability that this marble is black ?

6. In a standard deck of cards, what is the

probability that you will pick a face card at
randomly?

3. In a group of 80 car owners, 6 own hybrid

cars. If one car owner is selected at
randomly from this group, what is the
probability that this car owner owns a
7. 1980 randomly selected adults were
hybrid car?
asked whether or not they have ever
stopped on the internet. The following
table gives a two-way classification the
response.
A. Is a male
B. Is a female
C. Has never shopped on the internet

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ADULTS HAVE SHOPPED HAVE NEVER TOTAL
SHOPPED

Male 402 788 1190 9. A letter is chosen at random from the

English alphabet. What is the probability
Female 468 322 790 that the letter chosen is a vowel or
constant?
TOTAL 870 1110 1980

8. A hat contains 5 blue marbles, 7 white
marbles and 3 green marbles. A marble is
taken at randomly from the hat. Find the
probability that the marble taken is;
a. A blue marble or a green marble
10. A card is drawn at random from a
standard deck of cards, find the
probability that the card drawn is;
a. A black card or a red card

b. A red card or a face card

b. A white marble or a blue marble

c. A spade card or a an ace card

c. A green marble or a white marble

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11. A city has 12 coffee shops: 4 Starbuck’s,
3 Caribou Coffees and 5 Crazy Mocho
Coffees. If a person selects one shop at
random to buy a cup of coffee, find the
probability that it is either a Starbuck’s or
a Crazy Mocho Coffees.
14. A number 1 to 40 are written on separate
flash cards. If a card is chosen at random,
find the probability that the number is
either even or odd number?

12. A day of the week is selected at random.

Find the probability that is a weekend day.
15. A fair six-sided die
rolled. Find the
probability igreaters
even number or a
number then 3?

13. The corporate research and development

centers for three local companies have
the number employees in U.S. Steel have
180, in Alcoa have 330, and in Bayer
Material Science have 480. If a research
employee is selected at random, find the
probability that the employee is employed
by U.S. Steel or Alcoa.

16. A Card is drawn at random from a

standard deck of cards, find the
probability that the card drawn is a speed
card or an even number card.

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 19. A 5 digit PIN number is selected. What is
17. Suppose the probability that a college the probability that there are no repeated
student in CE takes a Mechanics subject digits?
in their first semester is 80%, and the
probability that they take a Dynamics
subject is 68%. The probability that a
student takes both mechanics and
dynamics subject in their first semester is
40%. What is the probability that a
students take Mechanics or Dynamics?

20. In a hospital unit there are 12 doctor’s

and 10 physicians ; 8 doctors and 7
physicians are females, find that the
probability is a nurse or a male.

18. A card is drawn from a standard deck of

52 playing cards. What is the probability
that the card will be a spade or a 4?

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21. If the probability that a person lives in an 24. A field has 12 different locations points in
industrialized country of the world is 1/3, which a flag can be placed. If 4 different
find the probability that a person does not colored flags are to be placed on the field,
live in a industrial country. how many different ways are possible?

22. A bag has 20 marbles in it. 13 are white, 4

25. Four awards will be a given to an
are blue and 3 are gold. Mike shake the
Engineering class of 30 students receive
bag real good! Find the probability of
at most one award, how many possible
drawing a white marble, replacing it and
selection are there?
then drawing a gold marble.

23. A student is chosen at random from the

Camarines Sur Polytechnic Colleges or CSPC.
26. Two drugs operate independently of each
The probability that a student takes a math
course at CSPC is 0.75%. The probability that other. Drug A is effective 88% of the time.
a student takes a science class at CSPC is o. Drug B is effective 70% of the time. If
50% . The probability that they take a science both drugs are administered at the same
class or a math class is 0. 40%. Find the time, find the probability that neither drug
probability that a student takes both a math is effective.
and a science class.

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27. An operating room needs to schedule 3
brain surgeries, 5 heart surgeries and 2
lung surgeries in a day. How many
number of possible sequences of the
surgeries?
28. A ice cream has eight flavors. A kid wants
to buy three flavors of candy. If he
randomly selects four flavors out of eight,
how many combinations are possible?
29. A field has 8 different location points in
which a flag can be placed. If three
identical colored flags are to be placed on
the field, how many different ways are
possible?
30. A civil engineering students wants to buy
review books, three mechanics book, four
math books and two geotechnical book
and five hydraulic books. The bookseller
has a total of ten each subject. How many
ways the student can buy the books?
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