Simple Probability

P(Blue or Grey or Purple)?

• 3/8

• 2/8

• 1/4

• 1/3

What is the probability of the spinner landing on orange or green?

• 2/8, or 1/4

• 3/8

• 4/8, or 1/2

• 1/8

What is the probability of the spinner landing on an even number?

• 1/8

• 4/8, or 1/2

• 2/8, or 1/4

• 1/3

What is the probability of spinning an even number?

• 16 2/3%

• 33 1/3%

• 50%

• 75%

The following M & M colors are in the bowl:
4 yellow, 6 orange, 3 green, 5 blue, 2 brown
What is the probability of selecting a brown candy?

• 2/18

• 1/9

• 2/20

• 1/10

What is the probability of flipping a coin and getting tails?

• 1/2

• 1/3

• 1/4

• Never, Tails never fails.

What is the probability of spinning a prime number? 

• 1/2

• 2/3

• 1/6

• 0

Find the probability of rolling greater than a 1 on a single die.

• 6/6

• 5/6

• 4/6

• 1/6

Find the probability of not rolling a 2 on a single die.

• 1/6

• 2/6

• 5/6

• 2

Determine whether the event is impossible, unlikely, as likely as not, likely, or certain. You flip a fair coin and the coin will land heads up.

• impossible

• unlikely

• as likely as not

• likely