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100
A jar of gum-balls contains 2 red, 2 blue, 4 yellow, and 5 green gum-balls. What is the probability of choosing a blue gum-ball?
What is 2 out of 13
100
Makel has been chosen to try and win the coin toss at his football game. What is the probability that the coin will land on heads? Write your answer as a percent.
What is 50%
100
Lacy received a Dress Up Sally Doll as a birthday party present. The doll comes with 5 shirts, 3 pants, and 6 pairs of shoes. How many total outfit possibilites are there?
What is 90
100
What is the probability of rolling an odd number on a six sided number cube?
What is 1/2
100
A standard number cube has sides labeled 1 through 6. What is the probability of rolling a multiple of 3? Write your answer as a fraction.
What is 1 out of 3
200
In a dozen doughnuts, eleven are chocolate. What is the probability of randomly selecting a doughnut that is NOT chocolate? Write your answer as a fraction.
What is 1 out of 12
200
One a game show, a contestant must randomly choose from 7 boxes. Three of the boxes have prizes. What is the probability of selecting a box that does NOT have a prize? Write your answer as a fraction.
What is 4 out of 7
200
There are a total of 50 guests at a party. There are 30 girls and 20 boys. What is the probability that the last guest to leave is a boy? Write your answer as a fraction.
What is 2 out of 5
200
There are 7 silver beads, 2 gold beads, and 1 bronze bead in a bag. What is the probability of randomly selecting a bead that is NOT silver? Write your answer as a percent.
What is 30%
200
A deck of cards consists of 52 cards. If there are 4 aces, what is the probability of choosing an ace? Write your answer as a fraction.
What is 1 out of 13
300
In a bag of candy there are 2 cinnamon candies, 3 butterscotch candies, 4 cherry candies, and 1 peppermint candy. What is the probability of selecting anything other than a cinnamon candy? Write your answer as a percent.
What is 80%
300
Michael is buying raffle tickets to win a gift card to Sonic. He purchases 25 raffle tickets. What is the probability of him winning if there are a total of 375 tickets in the raffle? Write your answer as a fraction.
What is 1 out of 15
300
The pinata at Melanie's birthday party contains chocolate candy, bubble gum, and lollipops. There are 35 pieces of chocolate candy, 50 pieces of bubble gum, and 15 lollipops. What is the probability that a kid will get a lollipop? Write your answer as a fraction.
What is 3 out of 20
300
A spinner is divided into 12 equal sections. Half of the sections are blue, 3 sections are green, and the rest are red. What is the probability of spinning either blue or red? Write your answer as a decimal.
What is 0.75
300
A teacher is giving pencils to her students. She has 5 purple pencils, 4 green pencils, and 1 yellow pencil. If a student randomly chooses a pencil, what is the probability of selecting any color but yellow? Write your answer as a decimal.
What is 0.9
400
Lauren is hosting an ice cream party. She will offer chocolate, vanilla, and cookie dough ice cream. Mix-ins will include: sprinkles, M&M's, or chocolate chips. There will also be topping choices of hot fudge syrup or whipped cream and lastly the ice cream will go in a cup or a cone. How many different combinations could there?
What is 36
400
Thomas, Tyler, and Travis are triplets who are each running for class president. If they are all equally likely to win, what is the probability that Tyler will win class president? Write your answer as a decimal.
What is 0.333
400
The JLMS PTO is hosting a pizza party. There will be 3 types of pizza offered: pepperoni, cheese or sausage. Drink options will include: Sprite, Dr. Pepper, Hawaiian Punch, or water. Lastly there will be several dessert options: cake, ice cream, or cobbler. If each person is allowed on type pizza, drink, and dessert, how many total possibilities will there be?
What is 36
400
The following letter tiles are placed into a bag: M A T H E M A T I C S What is the probability of randomly selecting a vowel from the bag?
What is 4 out of 11
400
Tia's Mexican Cafe offers three appetizers, twenty main dishes, five desserts, and ten drink options. If a person chooses one appetizer, one main dish, one dessert, and one drink, how many total combinations are there?
What is 3,000
500
In a box of popsicles, there are 4 grape, 3 cherry, and 2 orange popsicles. What is the probability of randomly choosing a grape or orange popsicle? Write your answer as a percent.
What is 66 2/3%
500
During practice, Trey can make 5 out of 8 three point shots. What is the probability that he could make a game-winning three point shot? Write your answer as a decimal.
What is 0.625
500
Ashley is giving away bottles of nail polish as party favor gifts. There are 6 pink bottles, 4 light blue bottles, 2 purple bottles, 3 red bottles, and 5 dark blue bottles. What is the probability of choosing a color that is NOT pink? Write your answer as a fraction, decimal, and percent.
What is 7 out of 10, 0.70, and 70%
500
In a class of 16 students, 14 students buy their lunch in the cafeteria. What is the probability of randomly choosing a student that does NOT buy their lunch in the cafeteria? Write your answer as a decimal.
What is 0.125
500
A box of granola bars has 3 different flavors. Four are peanut butter, four are chocolate chip, four are s'mores, and four are chocolate cherry. What is the probability of choosing a s'mores granola bar? Write your answer and its complement.
What is 1 out of 4 and 1 - 3/4