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AP Statistics Probability

Authored by Barbara White

Mathematics

9th - 12th Grade

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AP Statistics Probability
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1.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

5 mins • 1 pt

In a particular game, a fair die is tossed. If the number of spots showing is either four or five, you win $1. If the number of spots showing is six, you win $4. And if the number of spots showing is one, two, or three, you win nothing. You are going to play the game twice.
The probability that you win money at least once in the two games is

.75
.5
.25
.125

2.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

5 mins • 1 pt

In a particular game, a fair die is tossed. If the number of spots showing is either four or five, you win $1. If the number of spots showing is six, you win $4. And if the number of spots showing is one, two, or three, you win nothing. You are going to play the game twice.
The probability that you win $4 both times is

1/6
1/3
1/36
1/12

3.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

5 mins • 1 pt

An event A will occur with probability 0.5. An event B will occur with probability 0.6. The probability that both A and B will occur is 0.1.
The conditional probability of A given B is

.5
.3
.2
1/6

4.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

5 mins • 1 pt

If you buy one ticket in the Provincial Lottery, then the probability that you will win a prize is 0.11. If you buy one ticket each month for five months, what is the probability that you will win at least one prize?

.55
.50
.44
.45

5.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

5 mins • 1 pt

Suppose that A and B are two independent events with P(A) = .2 and P(B) = .4. 
P(A∩BC) is

.08
.12
.52
.60

6.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

15 mins • 1 pt

A die is loaded so that the number 6 comes up three times as often as any other number.  What, then, is the probability of rolling a 6?

.125
.375
.500
.250

7.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

5 mins • 1 pt

Suppose we toss a penny and a nickel. Let A be the event that the penny is a head and B be the event that the nickel is a tail. 
The events A and B are

Disjoint
complements
independent
dependent

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