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Mathematics
Quarter 3 – Week 6:
Probability of a Union of Two Events

Name of Learner: ___________________________

Grade & Section: ___________________________
Name of School: ___________________________
 What I Need to Know
The module contains only one lesson:
 Lesson 7 – Illustrates the probability of a union of two events

In this module, you are expected to:

1. Define simple and compound events.
2. Visualize the union of two events.
3. Exemplify the probability of union of two events.

What I Know
Directions. Choose the letter of the correct answer. Write the letter of your answer on
the space provided.

_____1. What do we call the results on an experiment?

A. Outcomes B. Probability C. Event D. Sample
_____ 2. What refers to the like hood for something to happen.
A. Outcomes B. Probability C. Event D. sample
______3. What do you call an event consist of more than one outcome?
A. Outcomes B. Probability C. Compound D. Simple
______4. Which is not a sample space of a die?

A. 1 B. 4 C. 6 D. 7

_____ 5. What refers to a subset of the sample space?

A. outcome B. experiment C. event D. result

_____ 6. Which is not an example of simple event?

A. Flipping a coin C. Rolling a die

B. Flipping a coin and a die D. Picking a card from a deck

_____ 7. When the probability is 1, then an event is ________ to happen?

A. certain B. impossible C. even chance D. likely

_____8. When the probability is 0.75, then an event is _______ to happen?

A. certain B. impossible C. even chance D. likely

_____ 9. What type of event is “tossing a coin”?

A. simple B. compound C. result D. sample space
_____10. What refers to something which will never to happen?
a. certain b. impossible c. even chance d. likely

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What’s In
Activity 1. What is the word?
Directions: Arrange the jumbled words below.

V N E S T E N O U O I N

1. __________________ 2. _______________________

A I P I AL B YO B I RY

3.________________________

I O NE TS INERCT D O P U M C NO

4. _______________________ 5. _______________________

What’s New
Activity 2: Complete Me!
Directions: Consider the situation below. You are holding a die. Your partner is
holding another die. If both of you roll the dice at the same time, how many outcomes
are possible?
Side of a Die 1 2 3 4 5 6

1
2
3 2, 3
4 6, 4
5 3, 5
6

Questions:

1. If you roll a die once, how many possible outcomes? ___________

2. What are those outcomes? _____________
3. Rolling two dice simultaneously, how many outcomes are possible? ________

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 What is it

From the above activity, you were able to recognize that the events in the given
situation are not simple events. This is because in finding the sample, you need to
find first the sample space using the fundamental counting principle. The events
mentioned here are called compound events. Typically, when the sample space is
finite, any subset of the sample space is an event. Any subset of the sample space is
an event.

Compound Events: Events which consist of more than one outcome are called
compound events. A compound event consists of two or more simple events.

To illustrate the union of two events, it is often useful to use Venn diagram to
visualize the probabilities. Just look the two diagrams below.

Diagram 1. Diagram 2.

A B
A B

Union of two events:

 In Diagram 1, If two events, A and B don’t have an intersection, then the

probability that either A or B occurs is the sum of their probabilities. In
symbols,
P(A or B) = P(A) + P(B)

 In Diagram 2, If two events, A and B have an intersection, then the

probability that either A or B occurs is the sum of their probabilities
decreased by the probability of both occurring. In symbols,
P(A or B) = P(A) + P(B) – P(A and B)

 The union of two events is the set that contains all elements that are in at
least one of the two events. The union is written as A Ս B.
 Union is denoted by the word “or” and symbol Ս.
 Intersection is denoted by the word “and” symbol ∩.

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 Example 1:
A small eatery serves lunch for all. A set of menu consists of 1 type of rice and 1
type of dish. The tree diagram below shows the possible menu combinations.

Questions:
1. How many possible outcomes are there?
Answer: There are 4 possible outcomes.

2. List the outcomes of selecting a lunch with white rice

Answer:
1. White Rice & Pinakbet
2. White Rice & Chicken Curry

3. How many possible outcomes for selecting a lunch with white rice or pinakbet?
Answer: There are 3 possible outcomes.

4. List the outcomes of selecting a lunch with white rice or pinakbet.

Answer:
1. White Rice & Pinakbet
2. White Rice & Chicken Curry
3. Red Rice & Pinakbet

Example 2:
Roll a coin and a die simultaneously. The table below shows the possible result of
the experiment.

1 2 3 4 5 6

H H1 H2 H3 H4 H5 H6

T T1 T2 T3 T4 T5 T6

Questions:
1. How many possible outcomes are there?
Answer: There are 12 possible outcomes.
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 2. How many possible outcomes having Heads or 3? List the possible outcomes.
Answer: There are 7 possible outcomes
H1, H2, H3, H4, H5, H6 and T3

3. List of possible outcomes having even numbers and tails.

Answer: T2, T4, T6

4. List of possible outcomes having even numbers or tails.

Answer: H2, H4, H6, T1, T2, T3, T4, T5, T6

Example 3:
The Venn diagram below shows the number of people who are positive in Swab
Test and Rapid test.

Swab Rapid

21 10 27

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Questions:
1. How many people who tested positive in swab test?
Answer: There are 31 people.

2. How many people who tested positive in rapid test?

Answer: There are 37 people.

3. How many people who tested negative in both swab test and rapid test?
Answer: There are 12 people.

4. How many people who tested positive in both swab test and rapid test?
Answer: There are 10 people.

5. How many people who undergo the tests?

Answer: There are 70 people.

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 What’s More
Activity 3A. Count me up!
Two sports who were participated by grade 10-students last intramurals are
shown in the Venn diagram below.

Basketball Volleyball

16 26

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Questions:
__________ 1. How many students are in grade 10 class?
__________ 2. How many students participated in basketball?
__________ 3. How many students participated in volleyball?
__________ 4. How many students participated in both basketball and volleyball?
__________ 5. How many students participated in basketball or volleyball sports?

Activity 3B. Let us roll it!

You are task to toss 2 dice at the same time.
________1. How many possible outcomes in getting 2 and 3?
________2. How many possible outcomes in getting 5 and 3?
________3. How many possible outcomes in getting both even numbers?
________4. How many possible outcomes in having 1 or 5?
________5. How many possible outcomes in having both odd numbers?

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Activity 3C. Toss and Tally…
Rodrigo wants to toss a coin and a icosahedron which has congruent faces
numbered 1 to 20 at the same time. Answer the table and all questions that follow
below.
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20
H

Questions:
1. How many possible outcomes are there? ________
2. How many possible outcomes of having even numbers? ________
3. How many possible outcomes of having even numbers or heads? _______
4. How many possible outcomes having odd numbers and tails? ________
5. List of possible outcomes having odd numbers and tails.
________________________________________________________________________

What I Have Learned

Activity 4. Matching Me Now!
Directions: Match Column A from Column B. Choose the letter of the correct
answer on the space provided.
A B.

_____1. It is denoted by the word “or”. A. Outcome

_____2. How many possible outcomes if B. 36

you toss two dice?
C. Union
_____ 3. It consists of two or more events
D. Compound
_____4. How many possible outcomes if
E. 4
you flip two coins?
F. Intersection
_____ 5. It is the result of an experiment.

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 What I Can Do
Activity 5: Food Combo matters!
Situation:
Your small eatery serves meal for all. You are to choose a set of meal for your
friends which will consist of 1 type rice, 1 type of dish. How many possible outcomes
menu combinations?

MENU:
Rice: Fried Rice, Steamed Rice

Dishes: Adobo, Sisig, Bulalo

Make your tree diagram in the box.

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 Assessment
Directions: Choose the letter of the correct answer. Write your answer on the space
provided.
______1. What do you call an event consists of two or more simple events.
A. Compound B. Simple
C. Probability D. Outcome

______2. What is the symbol used for Union?

A. U B. ∩ C. u D. U’
______3. What is the symbol used for intersection?
A. U B. ∩ C. Ս D. U’

For items 4-6.

_____4. How many possible outcomes are there?

A. 8 B. 10 C. 12 D. 14
_____5. How many possible outcomes are there selecting orange?
A. 2 B. 4 C. 6 D. 8
_____6. How many possible outcomes are there selecting sisig or lemon?
A. 4 B. 6 C. 8 D. 10
_____7. How many possible outcomes if you roll 2 dice?
A. 6 B. 12 C. 24 D. 36
_____8. How many possible outcomes if you toss a coin and a die?
A. 6 B. 8 C. 10 D. 12
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For items 9-10.

A B

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_____9. How many samples are there?

A. 8 B. 12 C. 16 D. 24
_____10. How many samples are in A or B?
A. 9 B. 11 C. 13 D. 15

Additional Activity
Activity 6: Report it to me!

A. In a local clinic, do a research to determine the number of child births for each
month last year.

B. In your school, determine the number of absentees in a class per month school
year.

Use basic concept of union of events to come up with a report showing the
number of the occurrences.

The report should contain the following:

a. Representation of collected data in a table

b. Process of the data gathering
c. Illustrate the collected data on a Venn diagram.

Criteria 4 3 2 1

Representation of It is complete, It is complete It is complete It is

Data and organized and and organized but incomplete
Explanation clear disorganized and
disorganized

Process Has correct Has correct Has Has no

and illustration illustration illustration
appropriate with minor with major
illustration errors errors

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 MATHEMATICS 10 QUARTER 3 – MODULE 3 Answer Key
What I Know
1. A 6. B
2. B 7. A
3. C 8. D
4. C 9. A
5. C 10. B
Activity 1:
1. Events
2. Union
3. Probability
4. Intersection
5. Compound
Activity 2:

Side of a 1 2 3 4 5 6
Die
1 1, 1 2, 1 3, 1 4, 1 5, 1 6, 1
2 1, 2 2, 2 3, 2 4, 2 5, 2 6, 2
3 1, 3 2, 3 3, 3 4, 3 5, 3 6, 3
4 1, 4 2,4 3, 4 4, 4 5, 4 6, 4
5 1, 5 2,5 3, 5 4,5 5, 5 6, 5
6 1, 6 2, 6 3, 6 4, 6 5, 6 6, 6
Questions:
1. 6
2. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
3. 36
Activity 3A:
1. 60
2. 16
3. 26
4. 0
5. 42
Activity 3B:
1. 1
2. 1
3. 18
4. 20
5. 18
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20

H H1 H2 H3 H4 H5 H6 H7 H8 H9 H10 H11 H12 H13 H14 H15 H16 H17 H18 H19 H20

T T1 T2 T3 T4 T5 T6 T7 T8 T9 T10 T11 T12 T13 T14 T15 T16 T17 T18 T19 T20

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Activity 3C:
1. 40
2. 20
3. 30
4. 10
5. T1, T3, T5, T7, T9, T11, T13, T15, T17, T19
Activity 4:
1. C
2. B
3. D
4. E
5. A
Activity 5:
Adobo
Fried Rice Sisig
Bulalo
Adobo
Steamed Rice Sisig
Bulalo

Assessment:
1. A 6. B
2. A 7. A
3. B 8. D
4. A 9. C
5. B 10. C

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Callanta, Melvin M.,Allan M. Canonigo, Arnaldo I. Chua, Jerry D. Cruz, et.al,
2015,
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5th floor Mabini Building, Deped Complex Meralco Avenue, Pasig City, Rex
Books Store, Inc.

Bryant, Merden L., Leonides E. Bulalayao, Melvin M. Callenta, Jerry D. Cruz, et.al,
2014, Mathematics Learners’s Material – Grade 9, edited by Debbie Marie B.
Versoza, PhD, 5th floor Mabini Building, Deped Complex Meralco Avenue,
Pasig City, Phillipines 1600

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