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Module Test Form A3

Probability

1. When entering class, each student is given a card labeled with either X, Y, or Z. The sample space showing the
possibilities for being given a letter over two days can be represented as {(X, X), (X, Y), (X, Z), _____}.
Which outcomes would be part of the sample space? Select all that apply.
Ⓐ (A, X) Ⓑ (A, Y) Ⓒ (A, Z)
Ⓓ (Y, X) Ⓔ (Z, X) Ⓕ (Y, Z)
Ⓖ (Z, Z) Ⓗ (Z, Y)
2. VIDEO GAMES Soo Jin is designing a character for a video game using the items in the table.
Item Number of Choices
Scarf 8
Hat 9
Nose 2
Smile/Eyes 10
If she selects one item from each of the four categories, how many different possible characters can Soo Jin
create? [ Ⓐ 29 Ⓑ 360 Ⓒ 1440 ]

3. Let A be the event that a die lands on a number greater than 2. Let B be the event that the die lands on a
factor of 30. Which are the possible outcomes of A ∩ B? Select all that apply.
Ⓐ 1 Ⓑ 2
Ⓒ 3 Ⓓ 4
Ⓔ 5 Ⓕ 6

4. What is the probability that the spinner lands on a yellow or an odd? Enter your answer as a simplified
fraction.

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5. WORK LIFE Out of the 1256 employees who work for a particular company,
589 of them work in an office. One employee is selected every month
to receive a free lunch. The probability that the selected employee does not
work in an office is [ Ⓐ 1.8% Ⓑ 46.9% Ⓒ 53.1% ] .

6. Point K will be placed randomly on DG . What is the probability that point K is not on FG to the nearest tenth
of a percent? ________

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7. GAMES To win a game, a ball must be tossed into the circular cup on the
game board. The probability of winning the game
is [ Ⓐ 20.86% Ⓑ 15.1% Ⓒ 13.1% ].

8. CARNIVAL GAMES Kelly is dropping a water balloon so it will randomly land on a labeled section. Explain how
to determine the chance of the water balloon landing on the blue or yellow sections.

9. The numbers 0 through 9 are used to create a 3-digit security code. If numbers cannot be repeated, what is
the probability that the security code contains the numbers 8, 3, and 1 in any order?
Ⓐ 1 Ⓑ 1
120 240
Ⓒ 1 Ⓓ 1
720 1000

10. Ten letter tiles are placed in a bag. Once a tile has been drawn, it is not placed back in the bag. What is the
probability that someone will randomly select the letter tiles in order to spell STATISTICS?

1 1
Ⓐ Ⓒ
25,200 100,800

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Ⓑ Ⓓ
50,400 3,628,800

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11. TEAMS Of the 9 people in a room, only 4 will be selected to play on a team. How many different ways can the
teams be formed?
[ Ⓐ 126 Ⓑ 3024 Ⓒ 6561 ] ways

12. Determine whether each event is independent or dependent.

a. Rolling a die and flipping a coin. [ Ⓐ independent Ⓑ dependent ]
b. Rolling the same die twice. [ Ⓐ independent Ⓑ dependent ]
c. Drawing names out of a hat without replacement. [ Ⓐ independent Ⓑ dependent ]
d. Two people think of a number between 1 and 10. [ Ⓐ independent Ⓑ dependent ]
e. Two team captains select players one at a time. [ Ⓐ independent Ⓑ dependent ]

f. Two customers each order a meal from the same restaurant. [ Ⓐ independent Ⓑ dependent ]

13. MUSIC Betty is listening to a playlist of 18 songs. She randomly shuffles the tracks on the playlist after each
song. What is the probability to the nearest tenth of a percent that the same song is played twice in a row?

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14. MARBLES Jerod has a bag of 20 marbles containing 12 red, 6 green, and 2 blue marbles. Jerod selects two
marbles at random without replacement. What is the probability that Jerod selects two red marbles?
1 33
Ⓐ Ⓑ
190 95
9 1
Ⓒ
25 Ⓓ
10

15. NUMBERS Henry selects a number between 1 and 100 and Caleb is guessing his number by asking questions.
Determine whether each question describes mutually exclusive events or events that are not mutually
exclusive.
a. Is it 30 or 40? [ Ⓐ mutually exclusive Ⓑ not mutually exclusive ]
b. Is it prime or a multiple of 4? [ Ⓐ mutually exclusive Ⓑ not mutually exclusive ]
c. Is it even or a multiple of 3? [ Ⓐ mutually exclusive Ⓑ not mutually exclusive ]
d. Is it less than 5 or a multiple of 20? [ Ⓐ mutually exclusive Ⓑ not mutually exclusive ]

16. EXTRACURRICULARS The table shows the results of a survey about what students plan to do after school. How
can you determine the probability that a student selected at random will be participating in a sport or working
at a job after school? Justify your reasoning.
Activity Percent
Sports 28%
Club 22%
Homework 24%
Job 17%
Other 9%

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17. HOME LIFE In a survey, 718 people were asked about their living arrangements. Of the people surveyed, 534
of them lived in apartments. Of the 678 people who live with at least one other person, 259 live in an
apartment.
Using this data, if a person is chosen at random, what is the probability that he or she is living with another
person, given that they live in an apartment? [ Ⓐ 36.1% Ⓑ 38.2% Ⓒ 48.5% ]

18. DEBATE Mrs. Ramirez will divide her class of 24 into two teams for a debate. She writes the numbers 1
through 24 on individual pieces of paper and distributes them randomly, one to each student. The students
with even numbers will be part of the red team and the students with odd numbers will be part of the blue
team. If a student is on the blue team, what is the probability that he or she was given the number 3 or 7?
Ⓐ 1 Ⓑ 5
12 12
Ⓒ 1 Ⓓ 5
6 6

19. GYM Hannah is conducting a survey at a local gym. She is asking each member if they prefer to use free
weights or machines. The table shows her results.

Free Weights Machines Total

Women 16 49 65
Men 67 28 95
Total 83 77 160

Using this data, the percentage of gym members that are women who prefer working out with free weights is
[ Ⓐ 10.0% Ⓑ 19.3% Ⓒ 24.6% ].
The two events shown in the table are [ Ⓐ dependent Ⓑ independent ].

20. SURVEYS Participants in a survey were asked whether or not they had a pet and whether their commute to
work was longer than 20 minutes (long commute) or shorter than 20 minutes (short commute). Use the two-
way frequency table to solve the problem.
Pet No Pet Total
Long Commute 32 48 80
Short Commute 67 49 106
Total 99 87 186
To the nearest whole percent, what is the probability that a person selected at random has a long commute
and no pet?
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