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WARM-UP BASIC PROBABILITY

Total questions: 12

Worksheet time: 36mins

Name
Class
Date
1.
Ben has a basket of 5 red balls, 3 yellow balls, and 2 green balls. What is the probability that the probability he randomly chooses will be red?
a)
1/2
b)
1/5
c)
1/10
d)
5/8
2.
A bag of marbles has 8 red marbles and 6 purple marbles. Jennifer will randomly select 1 marble from the bag. What is the probability that she will select a purple marble?
a)
6/8
b)
3/4
c)
6/14
d)
3/7
3.

What is the probability of spinning green?

Choose the fraction in simplest form

a)
0
b)
1/4
c)
1/2
d)
3/4
4.

A bag has 4 green marbles, 3 red, 2 blue and 1 yellow. What is the theoretical probability of pulling a red?

a)

3/10

b)

3/6

c)

1/9

d)

1/3

5.

You have a jar with the following marbles: 4 blue, 8 red, 2 green

You randomly choose one marble from the jar. Find the theoretical probability of choosing one red marble. Choose simplest form

a)

47\frac{4}{7}

b)

814\frac{8}{14}

c)

43\frac{4}{3}

d)

811\frac{8}{11}

6.

If an event is absolutely impossible, what percent probability will it have?

a)

0%

b)

25%

c)

75%

d)

100%

7.

If an event is absolutely certain, what percent probability will it have?

a)

0%

b)

25%

c)

75%

d)

100%

8.

If you choose from the following M & M colors, what is P(blue)?

5 green

6 yellow

8 blue

7 brown

a)

8/26

b)

4/13

c)

8/25

d)

1/3

9.

If you are picking a card randomly from a deck of cards, what is P(heart)?

a)

1/4

b)

13/39

c)

4/52

d)

1/52

10.

If you roll one die, what is P(odd number)?

a)

2/3

b)

1/3

c)

1/2

d)

1/6

11.

When rolling a 6 sided die, what is P(5)?

a)

1/2

b)

5/6

c)

2/3

d)

1/6

12.

The chance of rolling a 2 is 1/6. What is P(not rolling a 2)?

a)

2/6

b)

1/6

c)

5/6

d)

Not possible