Compound Probability Word Problems

What is the probability you spin an odd number and not yellow?

• 5/18

• 1/9

• 1/3

• 4/9

You draw a marble from a bag that has 4 red, 2 blue, and 3 green, you also flip a standard coin. What is the probability you will draw a blue marble and flip a heads?

• 1/9

• 3/9

• 5/6

A bag contains 2 blue marbles, 3 black marbles, and 5 red marbles. Mrs. Grow picks one marble, replaces it, then picks another. What is the probability of them both being blue?
P(blue and blue) 

• 1/25

• 1/5

• 1/20

• 2/5

If you spin twice, what is the probability the spinner stops on a shaded then striped number?

• 3/25

• 7/20

• 7/10

What is the probability of rolling a 3 and spinning a red?

• 1/6

• 1/4

• 1/10

• 1/24

Bag A= 9 red & 3 green marbles

Bag B=9 black & 6 orange marbles

P(BagA Green then BagB Black)

• 3/20

• 1/4

• 3/31

• 2/27

The chart shows the number of times a marble was selected randomly from a bag.  What is the probability that the marble selected is NOT green or blue?

• 21/38

• 10/28

• 5/14

• 17/38

P(cereal or steak)

• 9/40

• 1/40

• 8/40

• 1/2

If you pick a red marble and keep it, how does that change the probability of getting a green marble when you pick a second time?

• No change

• More likely

• Less likely

• Impossible

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