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Name: Date: The ‘And’ and ‘Or’ Rules

Your Turn: Class Work


1. A bag of counters contains 4 red counters, 5 blue counters, 8 green counters and 3
yellow counters only. You pick one counter at random, replace it, then pick a second counter
at random. What is the probability that:
a. Your first counter is red?

b. Your first counter is yellow or green?

c. Your first counter is red or blue?

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d. Your first and second counters are both red?

e. Your first counter is neither red nor green?

f. Your first counter is red and your second counter is green?

g. Your first counter is yellow and your second counter is not red?

2. The possible outcomes of an experiment – A, B or C – are independent. The experiment


is performed twice.
1 1 3
P(A) = , P(B) = and P(C) = . Find:
5 2 10
a. P(A or B)

b. P(B and C)

c. P(A or C)

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d. P(A and B)

e. P(A’ and A)

3. A biased dice has four sides, labelled 1, 2, 3, or 4. The probability of rolling each number
is given in the table below:

Number 1 2 3 4

P 0.15 0.35 0.1 0.4

a. Show that the outcomes are exhaustive.

b. The dice is rolled once. Find the probability of:


i. P(1 or 4)

ii. P(1 or 3)’

c. The dice is rolled twice. Find the probability of:


iii. P(3 and 4)

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iv. P(1 and 3’)

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