Independent and Dependent Probabilities

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

What is the probability of rolling a dice and landing on a 4, and then rolling the dice again and landing on any even number?

• 1 ⁄ 6

• 1 ⁄ 8

• 1 ⁄ 2

• 1 ⁄ 12

Suppose a number cube is rolled twice. What is the probability that an odd number will show both times?

• 1/3

• 1/2

• 1/6

• 1/4

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.

• 3/20

• 1/4

• 3/31

• 2/27

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(white, then purple, then black)

• 1/36

• 2/39

• 5/41

• 6/43

You are playing a game of scrabble. The tiles shown are dropped in a bag. You need to choose two tiles. What is the probability of choosing an "E", keeping it, and then choosing a "H"?

• 4/15

• 1/70

• 1/75

• 1/225

What is the probability of randomly selecting a stripped marble, replacing it, and then selecting a solid marble?

• 40%

• 60%

• 24%

• 22%

Find P(striped marble with replacement, then another striped marble).

• 10%

• 16%

• 40%

• 50%