Name _______________________________ Date_____________

Worksheet A3 : Single Event Probability

One of these names is to be drawn from a hat. Determine each probability below:

Mary Jenny Bob Marilyn Bill Jack Jerry Tina Connie Joe

1. P(3-letter name) = (What is the probability of drawing a 3-letter

name?)

2. P(4-letter name) = _____________ 3. P(name starting with B) = ____________

4. P(name starting with T) = __________ 5. P(7-letter name) = ______________

6. P(name starting with S) = __________ 7. P(name ending with Y) = _____________

One of these cards will be drawn without looking.

10 4 7 J S 9 10 2 M 5 4 J

8. P(2) =

9. P(5) = ________ 10. P(J) = _________ 11. P(a number) = _________

12. P(4) = ________ 13. P(T) = _________ 14. P(a letter) = __________

One card is drawn from a well-shuffled deck of 52 cards. What is the probability of
drawing…

15. P(ace) = ________ 16. P(face card – K, J, Q) = _________

17. P(a red 10) = ________ 18, P(NOT a diamond) = ______________

A spinner, numbered 1–8, is spun once. What is the probability of

2 1
spinning…
3
Name8 _______________________________
19. an EVEN number? _________ Date_____________
20. a multiple of 3? ___________
4 7
5 6 21. a PRIME number? _________
22. 9? ____________
Worksheet B3 : Complementary Events
Inclusive vs. Mutually Exclusive Events
 For any event A, P(A) + P(A’) = _______, that is P(A’) = ______- P(A).

1. Suppose that an event A has probability of . What is P(A’)? ______________

2. Suppose that the probability of snow is 0.58, What is the probability that it will
NOT snow? ________________

If A and B are mutually exclusive events, then P(A or B) = P(A) +

P(B).
and
If A and B are inclusive events, then P(A or B) = P(A) + P(B) –
P(A B).

A card is chosen from a well-shuffled deck of 52 cards.

What is the probability that the card will be:

3. a king OR a queen? ______________________

4. a red jack OR a black king? _______________________

5. a face card OR a card with a prime number? ______________________

6. an even card OR a red card? ____________________

7. a spade or a jack? ________________________

A spinner number 1-10 is spun. Each number is equally likely to be spun.

What is the probability of spinning:

8. an even number OR a power of three? ____________________

9. an odd number OR a power of three? ____________________

10. a number less than 8 OR a divisor of 15? _____________________

11. Look at the solution to the following problem and see if you can find the error
(there definitely is a mistake). Correct the error to find the right answer.

P(drawing an ace OR a black card) = P(ace) + P(black) = + = =

Name _______________________________ Date_____________

Worksheet C3 : Independent vs. Dependent Events

Independent events
1. 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.
2. Two seniors, one from each government class are randomly selected to travel to
Washington, D.C. Wes is in a class of 18 students and Maureen is in a class of 20
students. Find the probability that both Wes and Maureen will be selected.

3. If there was only one government class, and Wes and Maureen were in that class of
38 students, what would be the probability that both Wes and Maureen would be
selected as the two students to go to Washington? Is this still an example of
independent events?

Dependent Events
4. A box contains 5 purple marbles, 3, green marbles, and 2 orange marbles. Two
consecutive draws are made from the box without replacement of the first draw.
Find the probability of each event.
a. P(orange first, green second)

b. P(both marbles are purple)

c. P( the first marble is purple, and the second is ANY color EXCEPT purple)

5. If you draw two cards from a standard deck of 52 cards without replacement, find:
a. P(King first, Jack second)

b. P(face card first, ace second)

c. P(2 aces)

MULTIPLE CHOICE:

6. A coin is tossed and a die with numbers 1-6 is rolled. What is P(heads and 3)?

a. 1/12 b. 1/4 c. 1/3 d. 2/3

7. Two cards are selected from a deck of cards numbered 1 – 10. Once a card is
selected,
it is not replaced. What is P(two even numbers)?

a. 1/4 b. 2/9 c. 1/2 d. 1

8. Which of the following in NOT an example of independent events?

 a. rolling a die and spinning a spinner
b. tossing a coin two times
c. picking two cards from a deck with replacement of first card
d. selecting two marbles one at a time without replacement

9. A club has 25 members, 20 boys and 5 girls. Two members are selected at random
to
serve as president and vice president. What is the probability that both will be
girls?

a. 1/5 b. 1/25 c. 1/30 d. 1/4

10. One marble is randomly drawn and then replaced from a jar containing two white
marbles and one black marble. A second marble is drawn. What is the probability
of drawing a white and then a black?

a. 1/3 b. 2/9 c. 3/8 d. 1/6

11. Maria rolls a pair of dice. What is the probability that she obtains a sum that is
either a multiple of 3 OR a multiple of 4?

a. 5/9 b. 7/12 c. 1/36 d. 7/36

12. Events A and B are independent. The P(A) = 3/5, and P(not B) = 2/3. What is P(A
and B)?

a. 2/5 b. 1/5 c. 4/15 d. 2/15

Name _______________________________ Date_____________

Worksheet E3 : Review for Unit 3Test

The spinner shown is spun once. For each problem, find:

a. the probability of each event,
b. the odds in favor of each event. Give your answers as reduced fractions.

1. The number is odd.

Red Red
8 1
White White
7 2
2. The spinner lands on white. Blue Blue
6 3
Red White
5 4
3. The number is 6 or red.
4. The number has a factor of 3 or not white.

5. A bag contains 8 red marbles, 12 blue marbles, and 17 green marbles. If one marble is randomly selected
from the bag, what is the probability that the marble is red or green?

a. b. c. d. e.

6. A circular spinner is divided into 5 equal parts. If the spinner is spun 3 times, what is the probability that
an even number is spun all 3 times? (Think of each spin as a separate event.)

a. b. c. d.

Questions 7 – 12 refer to a bag that contains 6 blue marbles, 7 green marbles, and 3 red marbles. (Show your
answers as reduced fractions or percents to the nearest tenth. ) Example: =12.5%

_______________7. What is the probability of selecting a red marble?

_______________8. What is the probability of selecting a red or a green marble?

_______________9. If the probability of selecting a blue marble is , what is the probability of not selecting
a blue marble?

_______________10. What is the probability of selecting a green marble, replacing that marble, and then
selecting a blue marble?

_______________11. What is the probability of selecting a green marble, without replacement, and then
selecting a blue marble?
_______________12. What is the probability of selecting a blue marble and then selecting another blue
marble without replacement?