PROBABILITY: Independent & Dependent Events

You flip a coin and then roll a fair

six-sided die. The coin lands tails-up and

the die shows an odd number.

• Independent

• Dependent

Tags

CCSS.HSS.CP.A.2

CCSS.HSS.CP.A.3

CCSS.HSS.CP.A.5

CCSS.HSS.CP.B.8

A cooler contains fourteen bottles of

sports drink: seven lemon-lime flavored

and seven orange flavored. You randomly

grab a bottle and give it to your friend.

Then, you randomly grab a bottle for

yourself. Your friend gets a lemon-lime

and you get an orange.

• Independent

• Dependent

Tags

CCSS.HSS.CP.A.2

CCSS.HSS.CP.A.3

CCSS.HSS.CP.B.6

CCSS.HSS.CP.B.8

A basket contains six apples and seven

peaches. You randomly select one piece

of fruit and eat it. Then you randomly

select another piece of fruit. The first

piece of fruit is an apple and the second

piece is a peach.

• Independent

• Dependent

Tags

CCSS.HSS.CP.A.2

CCSS.HSS.CP.A.3

CCSS.HSS.CP.A.4

CCSS.HSS.CP.B.6

CCSS.HSS.CP.B.8

A bag contains eight red marbles and three

blue marbles. Another bag contains five

green marbles and four yellow marbles.

You randomly pick one marble from each

bag. One marble is blue and one marble is

yellow.

• Independent

• Dependent

Tags

CCSS.HSS.CP.A.2

CCSS.HSS.CP.A.3

CCSS.HSS.CP.A.4

CCSS.HSS.CP.B.8

A box of chocolates contains six milk

chocolates and eight dark chocolates. You

randomly pick a chocolate and eat it.

Then you randomly pick another piece.

Both pieces are milk chocolate.

• Independent

• Dependent

Tags

CCSS.HSS.CP.A.2

CCSS.HSS.CP.A.3

CCSS.HSS.CP.A.4

CCSS.HSS.CP.B.6

You select two cards from a standard

shuffled deck of 52 cards. Both selected

cards are diamonds. (Note that 13 of the

52 cards are diamonds.)

• Independent

• Dependent

Tags

CCSS.HSS.CP.A.2

CCSS.HSS.CP.A.3

CCSS.HSS.CP.B.6

A cooler contains fourteen bottles of

sports drink: seven lemon-lime flavored

and seven orange flavored. You randomly

grab a bottle and give it to your friend.

Then, you randomly grab a bottle for

yourself. You and your friend both get

lemon-lime.

• Independent

• Dependent

Tags

CCSS.HSS.CP.A.2

CCSS.HSS.CP.A.3

CCSS.HSS.CP.B.6

CCSS.HSS.CP.B.8

A bag contains five red marbles and five

blue marbles. You randomly pick a

marble and then pick a second marble

without returning the marbles to the bag.

Both marbles are red.

• Independent

• Dependent

Tags

CCSS.HSS.CP.A.2

CCSS.HSS.CP.A.3

CCSS.HSS.CP.B.6

CCSS.HSS.CP.B.8

A basket contains eight apples and seven

peaches. You randomly select a piece of

fruit and then return it to the basket. Then

you randomly select another piece of fruit.

Both pieces of fruit are apples.

• Independent

• Dependent

Tags

CCSS.HSS.CP.A.2

CCSS.HSS.CP.A.3

CCSS.HSS.CP.A.5

CCSS.HSS.CP.B.6

CCSS.HSS.CP.B.8

Your sock drawer has four white socks, six

brown socks, and two black socks. You

randomly pick a sock and put it on your

left foot and then pick another sock and

put it on your right foot. You leave the

house with a white sock on your left foot

and a brown sock on your right foot.

• Independent

• Dependent

Tags

CCSS.HSS.CP.A.2

CCSS.HSS.CP.A.3

CCSS.HSS.CP.B.6