Geometry
Name: _____________________________
Unit 6: Probability
Unit 6 REVIEW Mods: ________ Date: ________________
1) A drawer in a jewelry store has 8 watches, 7 bracelets, and 5 necklaces. Find each probability:
a) P(watch) b) P(bracelet)
c) P(not a watch) d) P(not a necklace)
2) A student spins the spinner shown. The five numbered areas are equal in size. Find:
a) P(odd) b) P(not odd)
c) P(4) d) P(not 6)
e) P(less than or equal to 4)
3) A fair coin is tossed and the spinner (from #2) is spun. All outcomes on the spinner are equally likely.
a) List the sample space
b) Find the probability of getting tails and landing on 3
c) Find the probability of getting heads OR landing on 3
d) Find the probability of getting tails and not landing on 1
4) Some of the students in grades 9, 10, and 11 have smart phones. Complete the table with appropriate totals.
a) If an 11th grade student is chosen at random,
what is the probability that they have a smartphone?
b) If one of the smartphones is selected at random,
what is the probability that it belongs to a 10th
grader?
c) What is the probability that a student is a 10th grader given their phone is not a smartphone?
4) A fair coin is tossed and the spinner below is spun. Find the following:
a) P(Tails and C) b) P(Tails or C)
c) P(Heads or Tails) d) P(Tails And A or B)
5) The following Venn diagram shows the number of students who have at least one brother (B) or sister (S),
both, or neither.
a) How many students have at least one brother OR sister?
b) How many students have at least one brother AND sister?
c) How many students have at least one sister and no brothers?
d) How many students have no brothers or sisters?
e) How many students do not have brothers?
6) The following Venn diagram represents the probabilities associated with being in after school activities (A)
and riding the bus (B).
a) What is the probability that a student has an after-school activity?
b) What is the probability that a student rides the bus but does not
have an after-school activity?
c) What is the probability that a student rides the bus and has an
after-school activity?
d) What is the probability that a student does neither?
7) Complete the following Venn diagram so it represents the following information:
a) The number of students in a school is 450.
b) The number of students who have a phone or who
have a bicycle is 425.
c) The number of students who have both a phone and
bicycle is 50.
d) The number of students who have a bicycle is 135.
8) For the Venn diagram shown, 𝑃 𝑀 ∪ 𝑁 = .9, 𝑃 𝑀 ∩ 𝑁 = 0.2, and 𝑃 𝑁 ∩ 𝑀 - = 0.3.
a) Find 𝑃(𝑀)
b) Find 𝑃(𝑐𝑜𝑚𝑝𝑙𝑒𝑚𝑒𝑛𝑡 𝑜𝑓 𝑀 ∪ 𝑁)
c) Find 𝑃 𝑀 :
9) Which of the following is a statement of the Addition Rule?
A) 𝑃 𝑀 ∪ 𝑁 = 𝑃 𝑀 + 𝑃 𝑁 − 𝑃(𝑀 ∩ 𝑁)
B) 𝑃 𝑀 ∩ 𝑁 = 𝑃 𝑀 + 𝑃 𝑁 + 𝑃(𝑀 ∪ 𝑁)
C) 𝑃 𝑀 ∪ 𝑁 = 𝑃 𝑀 + 𝑃 𝑁 + 𝑃(𝑀 ∩ 𝑁)
D) 𝑃 𝑀 + 𝑃 𝑁 = 𝑃 𝑀 ∪ 𝑁 − 𝑃(𝑀 ∩ 𝑁)
10) In the Venn Diagram shown 𝑃 𝐴 ∩ 𝐵 : = 0.26 and 𝑃 𝐵 ∩ 𝐴: = 0.36.
a) What does the probability of 0.13 represent?
b) Write in proper notation and find the probability of both A and B.
c) Find the probability of B and Not A.
d) Find the probability of not both A and B.
11) Redbox has movies and video games for rent. Records show that if a customer is selected at random, the
probability that the customer rents a movie is 0.82, the probability that the customer rents a video game
is 0.34. The probability that customer changes their mind and rents nothing is 0.08.
a) Draw a Venn Diagram to represent the b) What is the probability that a customer rents a game and
situation. movie?
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c) What is the probability that a customer does not rent a
movie?
12) A student is going to flip a coin 3 times.
a) What is the probability of getting a b) What is the probability of getting 2 heads
head 3 times in a row? and one tail in any order?
13) At Violet Elementary school, on Thursday 82% of the students had recess outside while 17% of the students
had recess in the gym.
a) If a student is selected at random, what is the probability that the student either has recess in the outside or
in the gym? Why?
b) If a student is selected at random what is the probability that the student does not have recess in the gym
or outside?
c) What is the probability that a student has recess in the gym AND outside? Why?
14) For two events A and B, 𝑃 𝐴 = .41, 𝑃 𝐵 = 0.43, and 𝑃 𝐴 ∪ 𝐵 = .81. Are events A and B mutually
exclusive? Why?
15) Write the ‘Probability of B given A” in proper notation.
16) The table summarizes the numbers of cats and dogs at a private pet shelter.
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a) What is the probability that an animal selected
at random is a dog?
b) What is the probability that an animal selected at random will be on the first floor?
c) What is the probability that an animal selected at random will be a cat given it was on the first floor?
17) Use the Venn Diagram to find the conditional probabilities:
a) 𝑃 𝑀 𝑁
b) 𝑃 𝑁 𝑀
c) 𝑃(𝑀 ∩ 𝑁|𝑀 : )
18) Use the Venn Diagram to find the conditional probabilities:
a) 𝑃 𝑋 𝑌
b) 𝑃 𝑌 𝑋
c) 𝑃 𝑛𝑒𝑖𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟 𝑋 𝑛𝑜𝑟 𝑌
19) The table summarizes the numbers of text messages and voice messages between two students over a
one-week period. Suppose a message is taken at random, find the following:
a) P(text message | evening)
b) P(afternoon | voice message)
c) P(voice message | afternoon)
20) A teacher has a drawer with 4 blue socks, 8 white socks, 6 brown socks, and 4 black socks.
a) What is the probability that the teacher selects 2 black socks?
b) What is the probability that the teacher selects 2 brown socks?
c) A teacher draws one brown sock then returns it to the drawer then draws a brown sock again? Are these
events dependent or independent?
d) The first sock is not returned before drawing the second sock? Are these events dependent or
independent?
21) Consider the Venn Diagram
a) Are events A and B mutually exclusive? Explain.
b) Are events A and B independent? Explain.
22) The table summarizes the number of dogs and cats at a small animal hospital.
a) Find P(dog)
b) Find P(dog|second floor)
c) Is the outcome ‘pet is a dog’ indpendent from ‘on second floor’? Explain
d) Find P(cat|first floor).
e) Are the outcomes in part d independent? Explain.
23) Two events, A and B are independent. If 𝑃 𝐵 = 0.4 and 𝑃 𝐴 ∩ 𝐵 = 0.2, what is 𝑃 𝐴 ?
24) Draw a tree diagram and answer the questions that follow for the scenario. The letter D represents the event
that a day is a weekday, the letter S represents the event of shoveling snow that day. The probability of
shoveling snow given it is a weekday is 2/7. The probability of shoveling snow given it is a weekend is 3/7.
a) Find P(S) and P(SC)
b) Find P(S | D), P(S | Dc), and P(SC | DC)
c) Are D and S independent events? Explain.
25) The target showns consists of three circles with radii 1, 2, and 3 units, inside a 6-unit by 12-unit rectangle.
Suppose a dart hits the target at random.
a) What is the probability that the dart lands on an unshaded part of the target?
b) What is the probability that a dart lands on a shaded part of the target?
26) How many arrangements are there for the letters of each word?
a) THAT
b) FACETIOUSLY
c) BOOKKEEPER
d) MISSISSIPPI
27) A phone store has 15 different models of phones. A parent is selecting new phones for 3 children and wants the
children to have phones that are different from each other. How many different ways can the parent select
three different phones?
28) A restaurant menu lists 6 appetizers, 8 main courses, and 10 beverages.
a) How many ways can a customer select three different appetizers?
b) How many ways can a customer selectr three different main courses?
c) How many ways can a customer select three different beverages?
d) How many ways can a customer select 1 appetizer, 1 main course, and 1 beverage?
29) A license plate ID has two letters followed by three digits.
a) How many different license plate IDs can be made if repetition of letters and digists is allowed?
b) How many different licence plate IDs can be made if repetion of letters and digits is NOT allowed?
