Mutually Exclusive Events

Which of the following pairs of events are mutually exclusive?

• Cards: Ace and Spades

• Two Dice: Odd and Even

• Sit down and stand up

• Sit down and scratch your nose

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CCSS.HSS.CP.A.5

A packet of sweets contain strawberry, orange, mango, and apricot flavors. Randy picks a sweet out of the packet at random. If the probability of getting strawberry flavor is 0.32, the probability of getting orange flavor is 0.2, and the probability of getting apricot flavor is 0.25.

What is the probability that he gets mango sweet?

• 0.21

• 0.23

• 0.33

• 1

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CCSS.HSS.CP.A.1

CCSS.HSS.CP.B.7

The outcomes of the football match are either win, lose or draw. The probability of Rovers winning their next match is 0.55 and the probability of Rovers losing their next match is 0.2.

What is the probability that Rovers will draw their next match?

• 25%

• 48%

• 57%

• 75%

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CCSS.HSS.CP.A.1

CCSS.HSS.CP.B.7

Petra has a bag of colored counters, blue, purple, orange, and green. The probability of getting blue is  $\frac{1}{3}$ , the probability of getting purple is  $\frac{1}{4}$ , and the probability of getting green is  $\frac{1}{5}$ .

Petra selects a counter from the bag. What is the probability that she gets an orange counter? 

•  $\frac{13}{24}$  

•  $\frac{9}{12}$  

•  $\frac{13}{60}$  

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CCSS.7.SP.C.5

CCSS.7.SP.C.7

The probabilities of all mutually exclusive outcomes add up to...

(a)  

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CCSS.HSS.CP.B.7

If the probability of winning a football match is 45%, and the probability of losing is 21%. What is the probability of drawing?

• 29%

• 31%

• 55%

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CCSS.HSS.CP.A.1

CCSS.HSS.CP.B.7

The chance of rolling a 2 is $\frac{1}{6}$ . What is the chance of not rolling a 2?

•  $\frac{1}{6}$  

•  $\frac{2}{6}$  

•  $\frac{5}{6}$  

• 1

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CCSS.HSS.CP.A.1

Leon throw a biased coin. If the probability of getting heads is 0.4

What is the probability of getting tails?

• 0.2

• 0.4

• 0.6

• 0.8

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CCSS.HSS.CP.A.1

Edy plants a daffodil bulb. The chance that the bulb will grow is 0.8. What is the chance that the bulb will not grow?

• 0.2

• 0.4

• 0.6

• 0.8

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CCSS.HSS.CP.A.1

Wycombe plays a match of football. The probability that they win the match is 0.28. The probability that they draw the match is 0.55. What is the probability that they lose the match?

• 0.83

• 0.72

• 0.45

• 0.17

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CCSS.HSS.CP.A.1

CCSS.HSS.CP.B.7