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Total questions: 26

Worksheet time: 7hrs 30mins

Name

Class

Date

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?

1/2

1/5

1/10

5/8

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?

6/8

3/4

6/14

3/7

A bag of candy contains 2 packs of Skittles, 4 Twizzlers, and 10 Reese's cups. What is the probability of reaching into the bag and choosing either a pack of Skittles or a Reese cup?

3/4

1/4

3/8

1/8

An ice cream parlor has six different flavors. They have 4 toppings and 2 types of cones. How many possible ice cream combinations are there?

A regular deck contains 52 cards, 2 of which are red eights. Assuming the cards are dealt randomly, which is the probability that the first card dealt will be a red eight?

1/26

1/13

1/52

2/13

What is the probability of spinning a 2 on the spinner?

1/2

1/3

1/8

1/4

What is the probability the spinner stops on yellow?

.075

50%

25%

3/8

What is the probability of the spin stopping on yellow?

1/4

.25

50%

75%

What is the probability of spinning an even number?

0.25

0.33

50%

75%

10.

A die is rolled. What is the probability that the result is less than 3 ?

1/2

1/3

1/4

1/6

11.

The letters that form the word ALGEBRA are placed in a bowl. What is the probability of choosing a letter other than “A”?

2/7

5/49

5/7

10/49

12.

A jar contains 2 pink, 6 red, and 4 blue marbles. If you pick one marble without looking, what is the probability that the marble you pick will be red or blue?

5/6

1/2

1/3

1/6

13.

P(not A) =

*Remember to simplify.*

2/6

3/4

2/8

1/4

14.

The chart below represents the number of marbles in a jar.
P(green) =

5/19

10/28

5/14

15.

The probability of it raining today is 30%. What is the probability that it will NOT rain?

30%

70%

100%

16.

There are 4 blue marbles, 5 red marbles, 1 green marble and 2 black marbles in a box. Suppose you select one marble at random. What is the probability that the marble chosen is not green?

$41.67\%$

$91.67\%$

$75\%$

$8.33\%$

17.

Lucy has the spinner pictured and spins it twice in a row. What is the probability that she lands on blue first and then on yellow or green? Simplify.

1 / 16

1 ⁄ 6

1 ⁄ 8

3 ⁄ 4

18.

Find the probability of each set of independent events.

Rolling a six on the first roll of a 1-6 number cube and rolling an odd number on the second roll of the same cube.

Simplify.

1/12

1/6

1/8

1/2

19.

A coin and a number cube with the numbers 1 through 6 are tossed. What is the probability of the coin showing tails and the number cube showing the number greater than 2? Simplify.

1/12

1/4

1/8

1/3

20.

The letters that form the word ALGEBRA are placed in a bowl. What is the probability of choosing the letters “A” or "E" when drawing from the bowl? Simplify.

2/49

2/7

3/7

10/49

21.

Sam is fishing in a new pond that was just stocked with 3 bluegill, 4 catfish, 7 bass, and 2 carp. What is the probability that he caught a bluegill or a carp? Simplify.

1/40

1/8

3/124

5/16

22.

You roll a six sided die. What is the probability of rolling an even number three times in a row?

3/100

1/2

1/6

1/8

23.

Sarah has two spinners. Spinner A has six equal sections and spinner B has eight equal sections. Sarah will spin the two spinners at the same time. What is the probability that both spinners will land on a color that is not red?

1/6

7/6

4/7

1/3

24.

In a jar of Jolly Ranchers, P(Grape) = .42 and P(Apple) = .09.

What is P(Grape or Apple)?

.33

.51

.038

.544

25.

At Halloween, Mr. Shesman had a large bag of candy. The probability of randomly selecting a Reese’s was 0.35. The probability of randomly selecting a Snickers was 0.45. What was the probability of selecting a Reese’s or Snickers?

0.8

0.4

0.1

.16

26.

A letter of the alphabet is chosen at random, then a coin is flipped. What is the probability of choosing a letter from the word MATH then getting tails?

17/26

1/13

5/13

5/26

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Probability Gear Up

Total questions: 26

Worksheet time: 7hrs 30mins

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