Compound Events Probability Practice

Bag A contains 9 red marbles and 3 green marbles. Bag B contains 9 black marbles and 6 orange marbles. Find the probability of selecting one green marble from bag A and one black marble from bag B.  P(green, black)

• 3/20
• 1/4
• 3/31
• 2/27

A box contains 5 purple marbles, 3 green marbles and 2 orange marbles. Draws are made without replacement. P(orange,green)

• 1/15
• 2/15
• 3/31
• 1/5

A jar contains 4 white chips, 5 purple chips, and 1 black chip. Chips are selected randomly one at a time, and are not replaced. P(purple then black)

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• 2/5
• 3/7
• 4/9

A basket contains four apples and six peaches. You randomly select one piece of fruit and eat it. Then you randomly select another piece of fruit. Both pieces of fruit are apples. P(apple, apple)

• 2/15
• 3/17
• 1/19
• 6/21

Mrs. Cole has to choose two pieces of fruit for her lunch.  If she randomly takes two pieces of fruit from a bowl of 8 oranges and 8 apples, what is the probability she will choose two apples?  (Mrs. Cole does not put back the first piece of fruit before she takes the second piece of fruit)
P(apple, apple)

• 1/4
• 7/30
• 1/32
• 1/64

Find the probability of selecting a black checker from a bag of 6 black and 4 red checkers, replacing it and selecting another black. 

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• 1/4
• 2/23
• 3/41

Find the probability of flipping a heads on a coin, and then getting the color yellow on a spinner with 6 colors. 

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• 2/9
• 3/7
• 7/19

Jim picks a diamond out of a deck of cards, replaces it and gets a diamond again. What is the probability this happened. (There are 13 diamonds, and 52 cards in a deck)

• 1/16
• 2/13
• 4/17
• 1/21

Find the probability of drawing a red checker from a bag of 9 black and 6 red, replacing it and then drawing another red.

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• 2/27
• 3/43
• 9/22

Lisa flipped the same coin 3 times. What is the probability she obtained all tails?

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• 1/4
• 1/16
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