Probability of Multiple Events Practice

You draw a marble from a bag that has 4 red, 2 blue, and 3 green, you also flip a fair coin. What is the probability you will draw a blue marble and flip a heads?

• 1/9

• 3/9

• 3/6

• 5/6

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P(1 and A)

• 1/16
• 1/10
• 4/16
• 1/4

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The following M & M colors are in the bowl:
4 yellow, 6 orange, 3 green, 5 blue, 2 brown
What is the probability of selecting a blue, eating it then selecting yellow?

• 2/18
• 1/9
• 2/20
• 1/19

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A coin and a number cube with the numbers 1 through 6 are tossed. What is the probability of the coin showing tails and the number cube showing the number 3? 

• 1/12
• 1/4
• 1/8
• 1/2

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You flip a coin and roll a die. What is the probability that you flip a tails and roll a 4?

• 3/15

• 1/12

• 2/3

• Not possible

You flip a coin and roll a die. What is the probability, in a fraction, you flip a heads and roll a 3?

• 1/6

• Not possible

• 1/12

• 12/1

A letter of the alphabet is chosen at random, then a coin is flipped. What is the probability of choosing a letter from the word MATH then getting tails? 

• 17/26
• 1/13
• 5/13
• 5/26

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Sam is fishing in a new catch and release pond that was just stocked with 32 bluegill, 49 catfish, 27 bass, and 12 carp. He catches a fish, releases it, then catches another. What is the probability that he caught a bluegill, then a carp? 

• 5/24
• 11/30
• 2/75
• 7/60

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A fruit basket contains
9 apples, 3 bananas, 7 oranges, 5 pears, and 1 grapefruit. Kyle randomly chooses a fruit, does not replace it, then chooses another. What is the probably that he chose two pears? 

• 9/49
• 4/125
• 1/10
• 1/30

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What is the probability of drawing the ACE of diamonds from a deck of cards, putting it back in deck, shuffling the deck, and then drawing the ACE of clubs?

• 1/269

• 1/2704

• 0

• 1/52