EXERCISE 1 PROBABILITY 10. Two dice are tossed.

What is the probability that the

total score is a prime number?
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1. Tickets numbered 1 to 20 are mixed up and then a A. C.
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ticket is drawn at random. What is the probability 5 7
B. D.
that the ticket drawn has a number which is a 12 9

multiple of 3 or 5?
1 8 11. A card is drawn from a pack of 52 cards. What is the
A. C.
2 15 probability of getting a queen of club or a king of
2 9
B. D. heart?
5 20
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A. C.
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2. A bag contains 2 red, 3 green, and 2 blue balls. Two 2 1
B. D.
balls are drawn at random. What is the probability 13 52

that none of the balls drawn is blue?

10 2 12. A bag contains 4 white, 5 red, and 6 blue balls.
A. C.
21 7 Three balls are drawn at random from the bag. What
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B. D. is the probability that all of them are red?
21 7
1 2
A. C.
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3. In a box, there are 8 red, 7 blue, and 6 green balls. 3 2
B. D.
One ball is picked up randomly. What is the 22 77

probability that it is neither red nor green?

1 7 13. Two cards are drawn together from a pack of 52
A. C.
3 19 cards. What is the probability that one is a spade
3 8
B. D. and one is a heart?
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3 47
A. C.
20 100
4. What is the probability of getting a sum 9 from two 29 13
B. D.
throws of a dice? 34 102
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A. C.
6 9 14. One card is drawn at random from a pack of 52
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B. D. cards. What is the probability that the card drawn is
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a face card (Jack, Quenn, and King only)?
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5. Three unbiased coins are tossed. What is the A. C.
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probability of getting at most two heads? 3 9
3 3
B. D.
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A. C.
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B. D. 15. A bag contains 6 black and 8 white balls. One ball is
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drawn at random. What is the probability that the
6. Two dice are thrown. What is the probability of ball drawn is white?
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getting two numbers whose product is even? A. C.
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A. C. B.
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D.
3
2 8 7 7
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B. D.
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16. A bag contains 2 red, 3 green, and 2 blue balls. Two
7. In a class, there are 15 boys and 10 girls. Three balls are drawn randomly. What is the probability
students are selected randomly. What is the that none of the balls drawn is blue?
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probability that 1 girl and 2 boys are selected? A. C.
21 2
21 1 11 2
A. C. B. D.
46 50 21 7
25 3
B. D.
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17. If two letters are taken at random from the word
8. In a lottery, there are 10 prizes and 25 blanks. HOME, what is the probability that none of the
A lottery is drawn at random. What is the probability letters would be vowels?
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of getting a prize? A. C.
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1 2 1 1
A. C. B. D.
10 7 2 3
2 5
B. D.
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18. In a single throw of two dice, find the probability that
9. From a pack of 52 cards, two cards are drawn neither a double nor a total of 8 will appear.
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together at random. What is the probability of both A. C.
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the cards being kings? B.
5
D.
3
1 35 18 16
A. C.
15 256
25 1
B. D.
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19. A die with 20 faces marked 1 to 20 is rolled. What is 8. Twenty cars enter a car rally. There are 8 Mossans,
the probability that the number is divisible by 3? 6 Tayatos, 4 Suzukas, and 2 Mitsubashas.
A.
1
C.
3 Assuming that all cars have equal chances of
10 10
2 4 winning, what is the probability that:
B. D.
10 10 a. a Mossans will?
b. A Suzuka will win?
20. How many handshakes can be done in a convention c. A Hando will win?
with 40 people if everyone is about to shake others
hands once? 9. At a birthday party, cans of drink were put in a
A. 800 C. 760 container of ice. There were 16 cans of Cole,
B. 780 D. 750 20 cans of Sprint, 13 cans of Fanto, 8 cans of Sankis,
and 15 cans of Tetsi. If a can was picked at random,
what is the probability that it was:
a. a can of Tetsi?
EXERCISE 2 PROBABILITY b. not a can of Fanto?

1. A coin is tossed and then a circular spinner with 10. A card is drawn from a shuffled pack of cards.
seven equal sectors labelled ROYGBIV is spun. Find the probability of drawing:
Display all possible outcomes in a two-way table a. a black ace,
and then list the sample space for this experiment. b. a black card,
c. not a heart,
2. A bag contains identical cards with letters A, B, and d. a jack or a queen.
C. Two cards are drawn (with replacement of the
first card before drawing the second card) and 11. Numbers 3, 5, and 6 are combined to form a three-
paired up. digit number such that no digit may be repeated.
a. List the sample space. a. How many numbers can be formed? List them.
b. If event 𝐴 is defined as ‘the first letter drawn is b. Find 𝑃(the number is odd).
A’, list the pairs of letters for this event. c. Find 𝑃(the number is even).
d. Find 𝑃(the number is a multiple of 5).
3. The probability that a planted bean seed will
germinate is 0.8. If 200 seeds are planted, how 12. Each of the numbers 1, 2, 3, …, 20 is written on a
many are not expected to germinate? card and placed in a bag. If a card is drawn from the
bag, find:
4. A multiple choice exam has 4 alternatives per a. 𝑃(drawing a card numbered a multiple of 3 or a
question. multiple of 10),
a. What is the probability of guessing a correct b. 𝑃 (drawing a card numbered with an odd
answer for any question? number or a multiple of 4),
b. If a total of 60 questions are attempted, how c. 𝑃(drawing a card with have digit 5 or 7),
many correct guesses could be expected?
d. 𝑃(drawing a card with a number less than 5 or
more than 16).
5. A card is drawn from a shuffled pack of 52 cards.
Find:
a. the probability that a diamond is selected,
b. the probability that a picture card is chosen.

6. A pencil case contains 4 blue pens, 7 black pens,

and 9 red pens. If a pen is chosen at random from
the pencil case, find:
a. 𝑃(red pen),
b. 𝑃(black pen),
c. 𝑃(not a blue pen).

7. A number is picked from 𝑁 = {1, 2, 3, 4, …, 100}.

Find the probability that the number picked is:
a. a multiple of 5,
b. a factor of 100,
c. an even number.