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Probability Questions: Quick Quiz Questions Building On Last Week's Lesson

The document contains 5 probability questions involving rolling dice, picking balls from bags, and multiplying dice rolls. It asks for probabilities of outcomes like rolling an odd number on a die, getting specific combinations on dice rolls, and picking particular colored balls from bags where balls are not replaced between picks. The answers provided calculate probabilities using concepts like counting favorable outcomes, multiplying probabilities of independent events, and representing experiments as tree diagrams or sample spaces.

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Probability Questions: Quick Quiz Questions Building On Last Week's Lesson

The document contains 5 probability questions involving rolling dice, picking balls from bags, and multiplying dice rolls. It asks for probabilities of outcomes like rolling an odd number on a die, getting specific combinations on dice rolls, and picking particular colored balls from bags where balls are not replaced between picks. The answers provided calculate probabilities using concepts like counting favorable outcomes, multiplying probabilities of independent events, and representing experiments as tree diagrams or sample spaces.

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Probability questions

Quick quiz questions building on last week's lesson

1) What is the probability of rolling a die and obtaining an odd number?

2) You toss a coin AND roll a die. What is the probability of getting a tail
and a 4 on the die?

3) You have 4 red balls, 3 white balls and 1 green ball in a bag.

a) What is the probability of picking a red ball?

b) What is the probability of picking a ball that is not white?

4) A game requires you to roll two dice (say red and blue) but then to
multiply the numbers on the dice to obtain the score.

a) Copy and complete the possibility space diagram below

Blue die
1 2 3 4 5 6
1 1 2 4
2 2 4 6
Red die

3 6 9
4 4
5 30
6 24 36
b) What is the probability of a score greater than 10 in this game?

c) What is the probability of a prime number score?

d) Find the probability of the score being a square number

5) You have 5 yellow balls and two red balls in a bag. You pick a ball from
the bag and note the colour, but you do not return this ball to the bag.
You pick a second ball from the bag and note its colour.

a) Draw a tree diagram to represent all the possible outcomes of


this drawing of two balls

b) Use the tree diagram to find the probability of picking one ball of
each colour

c) What is the probability of at least one red ball

KPB2006
Answers

3 1 1 1 1 4 1 5
1) = 2) " = (and means ×) 3) a) = b)
6 2 2 6 12 8 2 8

4) a) see the table below


! ! Blue die ! !
1 2 3 4 5 6
1 1 2 3 4 5 6
2 2 4 6 8 10 12
Red die

3 3 6 9 12 15 18
4 4 8 12 16 20 24
5 5 10 15 20 25 30
6 6 12 18 24 30 36
17 4 1
b) by counting c) =
36 36 9
8 4
d) = (along diagonal plus two other 4s)
36 18
! !
5) a) see the tree below…
! 4
6 Y
5
7 Y
2 R
! 6
5
! 2 6
R Y
7
!
1 R
! 6
!
b) P(One of each) = P(Y AND R) + P(R AND Y) =

5 2 2! 5 20 10
" + " = =
7 6 7 6 42 21

10 10 2 22 11 20 22 11
c) Either + + = = or 1" = =
42 42 42 42 21 42 42 21
!
(i.e. either P(RY) + P(YR) + P(RR) or 1 - P(YY))
! !

KPB2006

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