Probability Review

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

Christopher picks a marble at random. Without putting the first marble back, he picks a second marble at random. Is this even Dependent or Independent?

• Independent 

• Dependent

There are 4 jacks in a standard deck of 52 playing cards. If Peyton selects a card at random, what is the probability that it will be a jack?

• 1/13

• 1/52

• 1/2

• 12/13

In a box there are 3 red pens, 2 green pens, and 1 blue pen. What is the probability of picking a red pen, replacing it, and then picking a green pen?

• 1/2

• 4/11

• 1/6

• 2/3

Nathan spins the spinner below two times. What is the probability Nathan will spin red on the first spin and blue on the second spin?

• 9/64

• 9/25

• 3/8

• 1/4

A bag contains 30 pieces of candy. There are 15 grape, 7 cherry, 3 lemon, 5 strawberry. What is the probability of drawing a lemon?

• 3

• 1/10

• 3/10

• 30%

• 23
• 25
• 35
• 50

• 12
• 13
• 15
• 17

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 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