This lecture series introduces the concept of probability and gives examples of calculating basic probability. Watch the videos and complete the interactive exercises.
Practice
Simple probability - Questions
1. You roll a fair 6 -sided die.
If necessary, round your answer to decimal places.
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2. Greg has an MP3 player called the Jumble. The Jumble randomly selects a song for the user to listen to. Greg's Jumble has classical songs,
rock songs, and
rap songs on it.
If necessary, round your answer to 2 decimal places.
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3. You draw a card at random from a deck that contains black cards and
red cards.
If necessary, round your answer to 2 decimal places.
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4. You spin the spinner shown below once. Each sector shown has an equal area.
If necessary, round your answer to 2 decimal places.
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5. You randomly draw a marble from a bag of marbles that contains blue marbles,
green marbles, and
red marbles.
What is (draw a blue or red marble)?
If necessary, round your answer to 2 decimal places.
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6. Omar ordered his sister a birthday card from a company that randomly selects a card from their inventory. The company has total cards in inventory.
of those cards are birthday cards.
What is (not a birthday card)?
If necessary, round your answer to 2 decimal places.
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7. You spin the spinner shown below once. The spinner has equal sectors colored pink, purple, blue, and green.
If necessary, round your answer to 2 decimal places.
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