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Extra Practice
Probability and the Multiplication Rule
Example 1
1. FRUIT Jamar has two bowls of fruit from which he can choose a snack when he
gets home from school. One bowl has 1 yellow, 1 red, and 2 green apples. The
other bowl has 5 each of boysenberries, strawberries, blueberries, and
blackberries. What is the probability that he gets a yellow apple and a
boysenberry when he reaches into the bowls?

2. Keshon wants to buy a flower and a pot for his grandmother. The plant store
has a display table with 1 daisy, 3 roses, and 4 pansies. It has 2 clay pots and
5 plastic pots. If Keshon randomly chooses 1 plant and 1 pot, what is the
probability that he will choose a rose and a plastic pot?

3. An 8-sided die is rolled, and a 6-sided die is rolled. Find the probability of rolling
a 6 on both dice.

4. A bag contains 6 red marbles, 8 green marbles, 4 yellow marbles, and 2 blue
marbles. A marble is drawn randomly from the bag and replaced before a
second marble is chosen. What is the probability that both marbles will be
yellow?

5. Santiago has planned a basketball game for the weekend. The chance of snow
on Saturday is 35%, with a 70% chance on Sunday. If these probabilities are
independent, what is the chance that it will snow on both days?

6. Patrick plays chess online, where he competes against 22 other chess players.
He is friends with 5 of the other players. Each time he plays, he’s randomly
paired with another player in the group. If he plays 2 times, what is the
probability that both of those will be with one of his friends?

Example 2
Determine whether the events are independent or dependent. Explain your reasoning.
7. Keshon has 4 blue socks and 6 white socks in a drawer. All the socks are
identical. Without looking, Keshon picks first one sock and then a second sock.

8. Caroline’s mother is going to let her choose 2 puppies from a litter for herself
and her baby brother. There are 5 male puppies and 3 female puppies in the
litter. Caroline randomly chooses one puppy and then another.

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9. You choose your lunch at a delicatessen. There are 5 choices of sandwiches and
3 choices of drinks. You randomly choose a sandwich and a drink.

10. Two friends are trying to decide which movie to see. They decide to flip a coin
2 times. The first flip is to decide which movie, and the second flip is to decide
whether they will go to a restaurant before the movie or after the movie.

11. Lawrence has two friends over to play a new video game. Each of the three
want to play first. Lawrence’s mother has them draw straws to decide the
playing order. She cuts a straw into three different lengths and holds them in
her hand, hiding the true lengths of the straws. Each person chooses a straw.
The person who chooses the longest straw gets to play the video game first.

12. A teacher randomly chooses a student in the class to answer a question about
the classwork. Each time another question arises, the teacher chooses a
different student.

Example 3
13. CARDS Two cards are removed one at a time from a standard deck of playing
cards and are not replaced. Find the probability that the first card is an ace and
the second card is a king.

14. RAFFLE Cyndi and Maddie are attending a store’s grand opening. The first
75 customers are automatically entered into a raffle. At the awards drawing,
the third-place winner is chosen, and then the second-place winner is chosen,
and then the first-place winner is chosen. Find the probability that both Cyndi
and Maddie are winners.

15. EATERIES Michael’s town has five types of restaurants. Type of

Number
Each month, the newspaper runs a story on the Eatery
restaurant of the month. If a different restaurant is Deli 4
chosen randomly each month, what is the probability Breakfast 6
that the first and second restaurants featured in the
column are both pizza parlors? Dinner 9
Pizza 5
Bistro 3

Probability and the Multiplication Rule Extra Practice