Compound Probability Quiz Review

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

How many outcomes are there with tossing a coin and rolling a dice?

• 2
• 6
• 12
• 24

What is the probability of picking a blue marble, putting it back in the bag, then picking a red marble?

If you spin two times, what is the probability of landing on green both times?

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

• 1/2
• 1/8
• 1/3
• 1/12

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

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 green?

• 1 / 16
• 1 ⁄ 6
• 1 ⁄ 8
• 3 ⁄ 4

When using a 6-sided number cube, what is the probability or rolling a 3, then not rolling a 3, and then rolling an even number?

• 1/12
• 1/2
• 5/6
• 5/72

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