Probability - practice problems - page 7 of 24
Probability is the measure of the likeliness that an event will occur. The probability (chance) is a value from the interval <0; 1> or in percentage (0% to 100%) expressing the occurrence of some event. 0 is an impossible event, and 1 (100%) means the certainty event. A collection of probability math word problems.Number of problems found: 479
- Competition 73174
There are 10 students in the class, of which 8 are girls and two are boys. We want to select three for the competition. What is the probability that they will be: a) 2 girls and 1 boy b) 1 girl and 2 boys c) 3 girls d) 3 boys e) at least 2 girls
- 20 balls
20 colored balls in a bag: Four red Seven green Nine yellow What is the probability of picking a yellow ball?
- Probability 73054
We roll six dice. What is the probability that: a) a six falls twice b) six falls four times
- Students and exam
In a certain college, accounting is one of the courses; among the accounting students, 60% are male. Among the male students, 75% passed the exams, while among the females, 50% failed. (a) present this using a probability tree diagram (b) determine the pr
- The probability
The probability that a life bulb will have a more than 682 hours lifetime is 0.9788. The probability that a bulb will have a more than 703 hours lifetime is 0.0051. Find the probability that a bulb will last for more than 648 hours.
- Five identical
Five identical coins are tossed. What is the probability of more than one head?
- Probability 72324
When entering the PIN code, we used the digits 2, 3, 4, 5, and 7 only once. What is the probability that someone will guess our PIN code on the first try?
- Probability 71784
What is the probability that if you roll the die twice, the sum of 12 will fall?
- Probability 71674
There are 32 passengers on the bus, including three passengers who still need a valid ticket. After a while, an inspector got on the bus and started checking the tickets. What is the probability that he wanted to check the passenger's ticket without a tic
- Strawberry 71664
The opaque package contains five lemons, six apples, and three strawberry candies. At least how many sweets do we have to choose so that there is at least one strawberry among them?
- Second prize
Jamie and Mark each bought a raffle ticket to win a new laptop or a new cell phone, where only 125 tickets were told. The first ticket holder wins the prize of their choice and is removed from the drawing. The holder of the second ticket drawn wins the re
- Probability 71204
On ten identical cards, there are numbers from zero to nine. Determine the probability that a two-digit number randomly drawn from the given cards is: a) even b) divisible by six c) divisible by twenty-one
- Probabilities 71194
We have a dummy die where numbers fall with probabilities P (1)=0.1; P (2)=0.2; P (3)=0.22; P (4)=0.16; P (5)=0.24; P (6)=0.08. Determine the probability that the two toss the same numbers.
- Distinguish 71184
We randomly choose a family with three children. We distinguish between gender and age. Determine the probability that: a) the youngest girl will be among the children b) all children will be of the same sex
- Probability 71174
Find the probability that one will fall at least once in three rolls.
- Probability 71164
We roll the dice twice. What is the probability that if an even number falls for the first time, the even number will fall a second time?
- Assume
Assume that you are to buy 5 pesos worth of candy in two different stores. In your coin purse that contains two 20-peso coins, three 10-peso coins, six 5-peso coins, and seven 1-peso coins, what is the probability of getting two consecutive 5-peso coins f
- Probability 69914
During the exam, each student receives 30 different questions, from which he chooses 3 at random. To pass the exam, he needs to be able to answer two correctly. What is the probability that a student will pass if he mastered 70% of the questions (70% of t
- Students 34
Students were surveyed as part of a Statistics project to determine if younger adults are more likely to have tattoos. The results are listed in the two-way table below: age; At least one tattoo; No tattoo; Row totals Age 18 - 29; 165 ; 342; 507 Age 30 -
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