Probability Quiz 10/25

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

There are seven boys and seven girls in a class. The teacher randomly selects one student to answer a question. Later, the teacher randomly selects a different student to answer another question. What is the probability that the first student is a boy and the second student is a girl?

• 7/26
• 1/2
• 2/17
• 8/29

A basket contains four apples and six peaches. You randomly select one piece of fruit and eat it. Then you randomly select another piece of fruit. What is the probability that both pieces of fruit are apples.

• 2/15
• 3/17
• 1/19
• 6/21

There are six nickels and seven dimes in your pocket. You randomly pick a coin out of your pocket and then return it to your pocket. Then you randomly pick another coin.  What is the probability that the coin is a nickle both times?

• 36/169
• 6/13
• 5/16
• 3/19

A box contains 5 purple marbles, 3 green marbles and 2 orange marbles. Draws are made without replacement.P(both marbles are purple)

• 2/9
• 1/3
• 1/2
• 1/4

A box contains 5 purple marbles, 3 green marbles and 2 orange marbles. Draws are made without replacement. P(1st orange then green)

• 1/15
• 2/15
• 3/31
• 1/5

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

Theoretical Probability is?

• What Should happen
• What does happen
• What Will Happen
• What I want to Happen

Experimental Probability is:

• What Will happen 
• What actually happens
• What should happen
• What I think Happens

If you were to roll the die one time what is the probability of it landing on a 2?

• 2 out of 6
• 2 out of 2
• 1 out of 6
• 1 out of 1