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Sample Basic Probability Problems

This document contains 22 sample probability problems involving situations like selecting random items from groups with known compositions, rolling dice, randomly choosing numbers or letters, and more. The problems cover basic probability concepts like finding the chance of an event occurring, conditional probability, and working with probability distributions.

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Sample Basic Probability Problems

This document contains 22 sample probability problems involving situations like selecting random items from groups with known compositions, rolling dice, randomly choosing numbers or letters, and more. The problems cover basic probability concepts like finding the chance of an event occurring, conditional probability, and working with probability distributions.

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Sample problems in Basic Probability

1. A package of Easter M&M's yielded 22 blue, 35 pink, 12 yellow, and 28 green M&M's. If an M&M is randomly selected,
what
is
the
probability
that
the
M&M
is
pink?
2. A package of Easter M&M's yielded 22 blue, 35 pink, 12 yellow, and 28 green M&M's. If two M&M's are randomly
selected, without replacement, what is the probability that the M&M is neither pink or green?
3. What is the probability of choosing a vowel from the English alphabet?
4. A number from 1 to 11 is chosen at random. What is the probability of choosing an odd number?
5. At Kennedy Middle School, 3 out of 5 students make honor roll. What is the probability that a student does not make
honor roll?
6. A large basket of fruit contains 3 oranges, 2 apples and 5 bananas. If a piece of fruit is chosen at random, what is the
probability of getting an orange or a banana?
7. A pair of dice is rolled. What is the probability of getting a sum of 2?
8. A student joins a singing contest and waits for the emcee to choose a song from the choices of 2 songs by Cueshe, 5
by Hale, 2 by Kitchie, 3 by Sugarfree, 2 by Bamboo and 1 by MYMP. What is the probability that a student will sing a
song by Sugarfree?
9. If an experiment consists of drawing a letter from the English alphabet, what is the probability that the letter that
will appear is a consonant?
10. What is the probability of getting a sum of 4 in a toss of a pair of dice?
11. Fifty balls are numbered from 1-50, placed in a box and mixed thoroughly. If a ball is picked at random, what is the
probability that it is an even number?
12. A card is drawn from a well- shuffled standard deck of playing cards. What is the probability of drawing a heart or a
spade?
13. The tickets in a raffle draw are numbered from 0001-7000. If a ticket would be drawn to choose the winner of a
brand new car, what is the probability that the lucky person to own a brand new car has a ticket number ending in 5?
14. The probability that it will rain tomorrow is 0.78, what are the chances that it will not rain tomorrow?
15. A videoke machine is stored with 100 foreign and 80 local songs. What is the probability that the song selected will
be a local song?
16. From a class of 27 boys and 21 girls, a student is chosen at random. What is the probability that a girl is chosen?
17. A pair of dice is rolled. If it is known that one of the dice is 4, what is the probability that the sum is 6 ?
18. Determine the probability that a digit chosen at random from the digits 1,2,3,,9 will be odd.
19. If a pair of coins is tossed, then what is the probability of getting at most one tail?
20. A purse contains three pieces of 1-peso coins, 5 pieces of 25-centavo coins and 4-pieces of 5-centavo coins. If three
coins are selected at random, find the probability that the money amounts to P4.50
21. If a letter is chosen at random from the English alphabet, find the probability that the letter is a consonant
exclusive of y.
22. If a letter is chosen at random from the English alphabet, find the probability that the letter is listed somewhere
after the letter g.

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