Probability

A bag contains 5 blue marbles, 4 red marbles, and 3 orange marbles. Mrs. Cox picks one without looking, replaces it and picks another one. What is the probability that she picks two that are not orange? 

• 9/16
• 3/4
• 9/144
• 5/16

You have a bag of 17 marbles.  Four are blue, 6 are green, 2 are red, and the others are yellow.  What is the probability of drawing a green marble, putting it aside, and then drawing another green marble?

• 15/136
• 30/289
• Other

In the game that Tony is playing, there is a 1/8 chance the spinner will land on red and a 3/8 chance that the spinner will land on yellow.   What is the probability that Tony will NOT spin red, then will spin red?

• 7/64
• 7/16
• Other

A number cube is rolled twice. What is the probability of getting a 6 on the first roll, then a number less than 5 on the second roll? 

• 2/3
• 5/36
• 1/9
• 1/36

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

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

You have a bag of 17 marbles.  Four are blue, 6 are green, 2 are red, and the others are yellow.  What is the probability of drawing a red marble, putting it aside, and then drawing a green marble?

• 1/136
• 2/17
• 3/68

Jamie has 3 raffle tickets. One hundred tickets were sold. Her name was not drawn for the first prize. What is the probability that her name will be drawn for the second prize?

• 1/3
• 1/33
• 3/100
• 2/99

You roll a six sided die. What is the probability of rolling an even number three times in a row? 

• 3/100
• 1/2
• 1/6
• 1/8

A chorus has 50 girls and 35 boys. If two are chosen at random to sing a duet, what is the probability that both will be boys? HINT: You can not have the same person twice in a duet 

• 1/6
• 7/17
• 3/8
• 13/25