Probability word problems
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Probability word problems
Probability word problems
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100

There are 4 unicorn stuffed animals, 5 teddy bears, and 2 dog stuffed animals what's the probability of selecting a dog stuffed animal. 

2/11

100

You have flipped a coin 1 time what is the likelihood of it landing on tails

what is 1/2 or 50% 

100

Three unbiased coins are tossed. What is the probability of getting at most two heads?

3/4

100

Two dice are tossed. The probability that the total score is a prime number is:

what is 5/12

100

A bag contains 6 black and 8 white balls. One ball is drawn at random. What is the probability that the ball drawn is white?

what is 4/7

200

You have 5 dozen packs of bath bombs equally assorted.  ( red, blue, green, yellow, orange, magenta). What is the probability of selecting a magenta bath bomb.  

What is 1/6

200

What is the probability of getting a sum 9 from two throws of a dice?

1/9

200

In a lottery, there are 10 prizes and 25 blanks. A lottery is drawn at random. What is the probability of getting a prize?

 what is 2/7

200

A card is drawn from a pack of 52 cards. The probability of getting a queen of club or a king of heart is:

1/26

200

What is experimental probability?


The probability calculated based on the results of an experiment is called experimental probability

300

Tickets numbered 1 to 20 are mixed up and then a ticket is drawn at random. What is the probability that the ticket drawn has a number which is a multiple of 3 or 5?

What is 9/20

300

what is the likelihood of rolling a 6.001 on a dice/ number  cube 

impossible 

300

In a class, there are 15 boys and 10 girls. Three students are selected at random. The probability that 1 girl and 2 boys are selected, is:

21/46

300

A bag contains 4 white, 5 red and 6 blue balls. Three balls are drawn at random from the bag. The probability that all of them are red, is:

2/91

300

What is a certain event?

 what is that event is surely going to happen. 

400

A bag contains 2 red, 3 green and 2 blue balls. Two balls are drawn at random. What is the probability that none of the balls drawn is blue?

What is 10/21

400

There are 30 green pencils, 50 red pencils, 19 blue pencils, and 1 black pencil. what is the likely hood of drawing a blue pencil? including probability in simplest form

19/100 and unlikely 

400

Two dice are thrown simultaneously. What is the probability of getting two numbers whose product is even?

what is 3/4

400

Two cards are drawn together from a pack of 52 cards. The probability that one is a spade and one is a heart, is:

what is 13/102

400

What is an impossible event?


 what is That means, that event is surely NOT going to happen.

500

In a box, there are 8 red, 7 blue and 6 green balls. One ball is picked up randomly. What is the probability that it is neither red nor green?

1/3

500

What is the unlikelihood of rolling a 12 on a 2 dice/ number cube 

 unlikely 

500

 From a pack of 52 cards, two cards are drawn together at random. What is the probability of both the cards being kings?

what is 1/221

500

One card is drawn at random from a pack of 52 cards. What is the probability that the card drawn is a face card (Jack, Queen and King only)?

what is 3/13

500

What is cumulative probability?


If an experiment has n possible outcomes, then the total probability of each of these nn outcomes is the cumulative probability.

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