Probability

Single Event Probability:

1. What is the probability of rolling a prime number on a normal sixsided die?

2. What is the probability of flipping a coin and landing on heads three

times in a row?

3. If the probability of rain each day in April in New Haven is .3, how
many days of rain are expected in the month?

4. What is the probability of being born on February 29, a day that

happens only once every four years?

5. Jenny and her brother spent the afternoon indoors playing board
games. If the probability is 1/5 that shell beat him at Monopoly, and
3/5 that theyll quit before they finish the game, what is the probability
that shell lose?

6. What is the probability that a randomly selected positive integer

less than or equal to 100 is divisible by 7? Express your answer as a
common fraction.

7. What is the probability that the square root of a randomly selected

two-digit whole number is less than eight? Express your answer as a
common fraction.

8. A jar contains 10 red, 7 blue, and 5 yellow marbles. Blue marbles

are then added in order to change the probability of randomly selection
a blue marble from the jar to greater than . What is the least
number of blue marbles that must be added?
9. Chelsea has made 6 of 17 free throw attempts. How many
consecutive free throws must she make to raise her percentage of free
throws to exactly 50%?

10. A circle is circumscribed by a square. What is the probability that

a random point on the square will be outside the area of the circle?

Two Event Probability:

11. Yale has a .2 probability of beating Princeton at football, but a .7
probability of beating them at hockey. What is the probability that Yale
wins at both sports?

12. What is the probability that Yale wins at least one of the two?

13. If you have two children, which is higher: the probability of having
two girls, or the probability of having one boy and one girl?

14. Before Game 6 of the 2013 World Series, the Red Sox were up 3-2.
If the probability of winning each game was .5, what was their
probability at that point of winning the series?

15. Im in New York at the corner of 37th Street and 5th Avenue, but
dont know which direction Im facing. If I go up a block, turn either to
the left or right, and continue for another block, what is the probability
that I end up at the corner of 38th Street and 4th Avenue?