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5 Minute Check (Independent and Dependent Probability)

Total questions: 12

Worksheet time: 12mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

You randomly draw a marble from a bag containing 2 red marbles and 5 green marbles. You put the marble back and then draw a second marble.

a)

Dependent Event

b)

Independent Event

2.

You randomly draw a marble from a bag containing 2 red marbles and 5 green marbles. You keep the marble and then draw a second marble.

a)

Dependent Event

b)

Independent Event

3.

New is a buyer for an electronics store. He received a shipment of 5 hair dryers in which one is defective. He randomly choose 3 of the hair dryers to test. Determine whether choosing the hair dryers are independent or dependent events.

a)

Dependent Event

b)

Independent Event

4.

A street magician asks a volunteer to pick a card, which is put back into the deck at the end of the trick. A few minutes later, the magician shuffles the deck and asks a different person to choose a card.


Are these two events dependent or independent?

a)

Dependent

b)

Independent

5.

Maura picks a marble at random. Without putting the first marble back, she picks a second marble at random.


Are these two events dependent or independent?

a)

Dependent

b)

Independent

6.

During P.E. class, one team is picking softball gloves from the class bucket. Bryce chooses a glove first, followed by Arianna.


Are these two events dependent or independent?

a)

Dependent

b)

Independent

7.

A gumball machine is filled with a mixture of blue and purple gumballs. Christina purchases a gumball, and then Lee does.


Are these two events dependent or independent?

a)

Dependent

b)

Independent

8.

Peter picks a card at random, puts it back, and then picks another card at random.


Are these two events dependent or independent?

a)

Dependent

b)

Independent

9.

For homework, a teacher instructs her students to choose a county in their state for a social studies project. Since they live in a small state, repeats are allowed.

a)

Dependent

b)

Indepene\dent

10.

Jamie and Mackenzie pick chairs at the same dinner table. Jamie picks first, and Mackenzie goes second.

a)

Dependent

b)

Independent

11.

Matthew spins the spinner twice.

a)

Dependent

b)

Independent

12.

Jenny took a coin out of her pocket and flipped it. Then she flipped it again.

a)

Dependent

b)

Independent