Probability Practice

Rachel is having breakfast. She will choose one item from the menu shown for breakfast and one item to drink. What is the probability Rachel will pick either French Toast or Pancakes to eat with milk to drink.

• 1/20

• 2/5

• 3/14

• 1/10

A bag has 6 black checkers and 4 red checkers.

Find the probability of drawing a black checker from a bag , replacing it, and drawing another black checker.

• 2/3

• 9/25

• 2/5

• 3/5

What is the sample space of flipping a coin and flipping another coin?

• Heads Heads, Tails Tails, Tails Heads, Heads Tails

• 4

• 2

• Heads, Tails

What is the probability of spinning an even number on the spinner below?

• 1/ 6

• 2/3

• 1/2

• 1/3

A card is drawn at random from a standard well-shuffled pack. Calculate the probability of drawing a red card

The cafeteria is serving three kinds of sandwiches:  tuna (T), chicken, (C), and peanut butter (P).  They are also serving a choice of two drinks:  milk (M) or water (W).  Which shows the CORRECT Sample Space List of possible combinations?

• TW, CW, PW
• TW, TM, TC, CW, PW
• TW, TM, CW, CM, PW, PM
• TCP, MW

Your friend has eight sweatshirts. Three sweatshirts are green, one is white, and four are blue. You forgot your sweatshirt, so your friend is going to bring one for you as well as one for himself. What is the probability that your friend will bring two blue sweatshirts?

When two six-sided dice are rolled there are 36 outcomes. Find the probability that the sum is NOT 4.

A group of 8 swimmers are swimming in a race. Prizes are given for first, second, and third place. How many different outcomes can there be?

• 336

• 56

• 24

Four students need to be selected from a class of 15 to help clean up the campus. How many different ways can the 4 students be chosen, if the only two girls refuse to help?

• 715

• 1 365

• 120