Chapter 10 Practice: Probability

You spin this spinner 3 times.
Find the probability of these 3 events.
P(red AND THEN odd AND THEN 3)

• 1/216
• 1/72
• 1/36
• 1/12

A farm has 5 brown cows and 10 white cows. A fence is open and two cows escape. What is the probability that it will be a brown cow, then a white cow?

• 1/9
• 2/9
• 5/21
• 10/21

A store sells shirts that are either small, medium, or large. The colors are either red, blue, green, or white. What is the probability someone will select a large green shirt?

• 1/3
• 1/7
• 1/9
• 1/12

In a drawer, there are 6 white socks, 4 black socks, and 2 brown socks. You pick out a sock, replace it, then pick out a 2nd sock. What is the probability that you will pick a brown, then black sock?

• 1/11
• 1/18
• 1/36
• 2/33

You pick a marble from this bag.
What is the probability you will choose either a black or white marble?

• 3/5
• 9/100
• 1/10
• 2/5

You roll two die.
What is the probability you will roll a 4, then roll a number less than 3?

• 1/36
• 1/18
• 1/9
• 1/6

Bag A contains 9 red marbles and 3 green marbles. Bag B contains 9 black marbles and 6 orange marbles. Find the probability of selecting one green marble from bag A and one black marble from bag B.

• 3/20
• 1/4
• 3/31
• 2/27

What is the probability of rolling a dice and landing on a 4, and then rolling the dice again and landing on any even number?

• 1 ⁄ 6
• 1 ⁄ 8
• 1 ⁄ 2
• 1 ⁄ 12

Lucy has the spinner pictured and spins it twice in a row. What is the probability that she lands on blue first and then on yellow or green?

• 1 / 16
• 1 ⁄ 6
• 1 ⁄ 8
• 3 ⁄ 4

Ricardo has the spinner pictured here and a bag of marbles filled with 2 red marbles, 3 green marbles, and 3 blue marbles. What is the probability that Ricardo spins red on the spinner and picks a red marble out of the bag?

• 1 ⁄ 16
• 1 ⁄ 2
• 1 ⁄ 4
• 1 ⁄ 8