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Dice
Spinners
100
The probability of tossing two heads in a row?
What is (1/2)(1/2) = 1/4 ?
100
Balls are placed in a bucket. The balls are numbered from 1 to 25. One ball is randomly selected from the bucket. The probability that ball # 22 is selected is...
What is 1/25?
100
The letters of the word PROBABILITY are placed in a bag. The probability of picking a b is...
What is 2/11?
100
You have 1 die, you roll an odd number. The probability for rolling an odd number is...
1, 3, or 5
What is 3/6 = 1/2?
100
A spinner is equally divided into 8 sections. The sections are 1, triangle, 4, triangle, 3, rhombus, 5, circle. Spin a 3, the probability is...
What is 1/8?
200
The probability of drawing a face card from a deck of cards.
(4 jacks, 4 Queens & 4 kings. 52 cards in the deck.)
What is 12/52 = 3/13?
200
9 blue, 3 red, 4 white marbles are in a bucket. The probability of pulling out a white marble is...
9 + 3 + 4 = 16
4/16 = 1/4
200
The letters of the word TAPE are placed in a bag. The total number of ways to arrange the letters is...
(You could use your calculator.)
4! = (4)(3)(2)(1) = 24
200
You have 2 dice, you roll doubles. (Both numbers are the same) The probability for this is...
1-1, 2-2, 3-3, 4-4, 5-5, 6-6
What is 6/36 = 1/6?
200
A spinner is equally divided into 8 sections. The sections are 1, triangle, 4, triangle, 3, rhombus, 5, circle. You spin a number, the probability is...
1, 4, 3, or 5. So what is 4/8 = 1/2?
300
The probability of drawing a club from a deck of cards.
What is 13/52 = 1/4? (Each number has 4 suits --> 
300
The letters HAPPY are placed in a bucket. The probability of pulling out the letter P is...
What is 2/5 or 40%?
300
How many ways can 2 students be randomly selected from a group of 8 students to clean the desks (order does not matter - they're both cleaning desks)?
(You will need to use your calculator.)
8C2 = 28
300
You have 2 dice, you roll a 9. The probability for rolling a 9 is...
3-6, 6-3, 4-5, 5-4
(6)(6) = 36 So 4/36 = 1/9
300
A spinner is equally divided into 8 sections. The sections are 1, triangle, 4, triangle, 3, rhombus, 5, circle. You spin a shape, the probability is...
What is 4/8 = 1/2?
400
The probability of drawing an ace from a deck of cards.
What is 4/52 = 1/13? (There are 13 different types.
400
6 blue, 7 green, 9 brown, and 15 yellow M&Ms are placed in a bucket. The probability of pulling out a yellow M&M, followed by a green M&M is
6 + 7 + 9 + 15 = 37
400
The letters from the word TOWEL are placed in a bag. How many ways can two of the letters be selected from the bag? (Assume that order does not matter)
(You will need to use your calculator.)
Order does not matter.
5C2 = 10
400
You have 2 dice, you roll a 7. The probability for rolling a 7 is...
1-6, 6-1, 2-5, 5-2, 3-4, 4-3
(6)(6) = 36 So 6/36 = 1/6
400
A spinner is equally divided into 8 sections. The sections are 1, triangle, 4, triangle, 3, rhombus, 5, circle. You spin a triangle, the probability is...
What is 2/8 = 1/4?
500
The probability of drawing a Jack of Hearts or a Jack of diamonds (a red Jack) from a deck of cards.
What is 2/52 = 1/26?
500
2 red, 5 blue, 8 green, and 3 yellow marble are placed in a bucket. The probability of pulling out a red or yellow marble is...
2 + 5 + 8 + 3 = 18
(2 + 3)/18 = 5/18
500
There are 10 students in a class. You wish to select three of them to be President, Vice-president and Financial secretary. How many ways can they be selected randomly? (Assume that order does matter)
(You will need to use your calculator.)
Order does matter.
10P3 = 720
500
You have 2 dice. You roll and do NOT get sixes on either die. What is the probability of this?
6-6 (6)(6) = 36
Ask what is the probability of NOT getting a 6 each time. Subtract this from 1.
500
A spinner is equally divided into 8 sections. The sections are 1, triangle, 4, triangle, 3, rhombus, 5, circle. You spin a prime number, the probability is...
Primes: 3, 5 (1 is NOT a prime)
What is 2/8 = 1/4?