Applying the Multiplication Rule for Probability

There are 9 movies showing at a theater. Two are action movies, two are children’s movies, and the other movies are comedies. Ashley randomly selects 2 different movies to see. What is the probability that the first movie is an action movie and the second movie is a comedy?

An experiment consists of spinning a spinner and flipping a fair coin. The spinner consists of 4 colored sections of equal size.

• Red

• Blue

• Green

• Yellow

If the arrow on the spinner is spun one time and the coin flipped one time, what is the probability of getting the outcome “Blue, Tails”?

A store has 20 boxes of cereal A and 10 boxes of cereal B. One box of each kind of cereal has a prize. If one box of each kind is randomly selected, what is the probability that neither box has a prize?

A stack of magazines has 5 news magazines and 10 sports magazines. Two magazines are drawn at random without replacement. What is the probability of selecting a news magazine first and then a sports magazine?

Mrs. Regan has a 12% chance of making a freethrow. What is the probability she shoots twice and makes both?

• 14%

• 1%

• 24%

• 5%

What is the Multiplication Rule?

• P(A) ⋅ P(B|A)

• P(A) - P(B)

• P(A) ⋅ P(B)

• P(A) + P(B) - P(A ∩ B)

A key ring has 12 keys, 3 of which open the house door. If two keys are randomly selected without replacement, what is the probability that neither key opens the door?

Sonia has 5 yellow hair clips, 2 red hair clips, and 3 blue hair clips in her purse. What is the probability that she will randomly select one yellow hair clip and one blue hair clip without replacement?

John has seven keys on a ring. He gives these keys to his friend Robin and asks her to unlock a door. If two of the seven keys can unlock the door, what is the probability that Robin unlocks the door on exactly her third attempt?

In her book bag, Jackie has one red pencil, one yellow pencil, one blue pencil, one green pencil, one orange pencil, and one purple pencil. She also has one red pen, one blue pen, and one black pen. If Jackie randomly selects one pencil and one pen, what is the probability that she will select a purple pencil and a black pen?