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Probability
Lucky Guess
100
The result of a single trial in a probability experiment

outcome

100
If you randomly pick a card from a deck of 52, what is the probability that you will pick a RED KING?
2/52 or 1/26
100

A box of chocolates contains five milk

chocolates, five dark chocolates, and five

white chocolates. You randomly select

and eat three chocolates. The first piece is

milk chocolate, the second is dark

chocolate, and the third is white chocolate.

Independent or dependent

dependent

100

A bag contains 12 balls;  5 red, 3 blue, and 4 yellow. What is the probability of selecting a red ball at random?

5/12

100

The number of  license plates can you make with 5 letters from the alphabet (out of 26), each of which can be repeated but the first letter must be A,B,C, or D

1827904

200

The set of all possible outcomes

sample space

200

Find the probability that the sales representative will sell between $0 and $49,999

8/36

200

A cooler contains ten bottles of sports

drink: four lemon-lime flavored, three

orange flavored, and three fruit-punch

flavored. Three times, you randomly grab

a bottle, return the bottle to the cooler, and

then mix up the bottles. The first time,

you get a lemon-lime drink. The second

and third times, you get fruit-punch.

Mutually Exclusive or Not Mutually Exclusive

Mutually Exclusive

200

Given a  spinner that has 10 equal pieces to it, labeled 1, 2, 3,...10 and a coin.

The probability of flipping a Heads and spinning an even number

5/20

200

The age of 1000 employees in below.  An employee is randomly selected.  The probability the employee is not between the ages of 45-64

695/1000

300

This probability,  Each outcome in a sample space is equally likely to occur


classical/theoretical

300

The number of responses to a survey are shown in the Pareto chart. The survey asked 1026 U.S. adults how they would grade the quality of public schools in the United States. Each person gave one response .

The probability the person did not give public schools a grade of A. 

974/1026

300

A magazine contains twelve pages. You

open to a random page. The page number

is eight or ten.

Independent or Dependent


Independent

300

The probability that a randomly selected person prefers sports programs?

16/50

300

The probability that a particular rotator cuff surgery is successful is 0.9.

The probability that at least one of the three  rotator cuff surgeries is successful.


1-.001=.9999

400

an experiment is repeated over and over again

law of large numbers
400


If you selected a coffee drinker at random and asked how many cups of coffee he or she drinks,  the probability that the coffee drinker would say he or she drinks 1 or 2 cups per week 

28/100 .28

400

Flipping a coin 100 times and landing on HEADS 20 times

Unlikely or Likely

unlikely
400

The probability that a randomly selected person prefers dance programs, given that they are male.

2/20 or 1/10

400

The probability the donor has blood type B or AB

61/409

500

the set of all outcomes in the sample space that are NOT included in the event

Complement of an event

500

If you randomly select a card from a deck of 52, what is the probability of selecting a red card after selecting the queen of hearts?

25/51

500

Rolling 3 dice and getting a sum greater than 20


Impossible or Certain

impossible

500

Given a  spinner that has 10 equal pieces to it, labeled 1, 2, 3,...10 and a coin.

The probability of flipping a Heads OR spinning an odd number

15/20

500
A physics class has 40 students.  Of these, 12 students are physics majors and 16 students are  female.  Of the physics majors, three are female.

The probability a randomly selected student is female or a physics major

25/40 

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