Introduction to Probability

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.

What is \mathrm{P} (roll a 2)?

If necessary, round your answer to 2 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 6 classical songs, 7 rock songs, and 9 rap songs on it.

What is \mathrm{P} (not a rap song)?

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 3 black cards and 7 red cards.

What is \mathrm{P}( draw a black card ) ?

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.

What is \mathrm{P} (beaver)?

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 8 blue marbles, 5 green marbles, and 8 red marbles.

What is \mathrm{P} (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 21 total cards in inventory. 14 of those cards are birthday cards.

What is \mathrm{P} (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 4 equal sectors colored pink, purple, blue, and green.

What is \mathrm{P} (blue)?

If necessary, round your answer to 2 decimal places.

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