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The document presents a series of probability questions related to various scenarios, including dice rolls, coin tosses, and random selections from bags and decks. Each question is followed by multiple-choice answers, requiring the reader to calculate the probability of specific outcomes. The scenarios cover a range of topics, from basic probability with dice and coins to more complex situations involving cards and songs.

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The document presents a series of probability questions related to various scenarios, including dice rolls, coin tosses, and random selections from bags and decks. Each question is followed by multiple-choice answers, requiring the reader to calculate the probability of specific outcomes. The scenarios cover a range of topics, from basic probability with dice and coins to more complex situations involving cards and songs.

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1. On a six-sided die, each side has a number between 1 and 6.

What is the probability of


throwing a 3 or a 4?
1. 1 in 6
2. 1 in 3
3. 1 in 2
4. 1 in 4
2. Three coins are tossed up in the air, one at a time. What is the probability that two of them
will land heads up and one will land tails up?
1. 0
2. 1/8
3. 1/4
4. 3/8
3. A two-digit number is chosen at random. What is the probability that the chosen number
is a multiple of 7?
1. 1/10
2. 1/9
3. 11/90
4. 12/90
5. 13/90
4. A bag contains 14 blue, 6 red, 12 green, and 8 purple buttons. 25 buttons are removed
from the bag randomly. How many of the removed buttons were red if the chance of drawing
a red button from the bag is now 1/3?
1. 0
2. 1
3. 3
4. 5
5. 6
5. There are 6 blue marbles, 3 red marbles, and 5 yellow marbles in a bag. What is the
probability of selecting a blue or red marble on the first draw?
1. 1/3
2. 4/7
3. 8/14
4. 9/14
5. 11/14
6. Using a six-sided die, Carlin has rolled a six on each of 4 successive tosses. What is the
probability of Carlin rolling a six on the next toss?
1. 1/2
2. 1/4
3. 1/6
4. 1/30
5. 1/3125
7. A regular deck of cards has 52 cards. Assuming that you do not replace the card you had
drawn before the next draw, what is the probability of drawing three aces in a row?
1. 1 in 52
2. 1 in 156
3. 1 in 2000
4. 1 in 5525
5. 1 in 132600
8. An MP3 player is set to play songs at random from the fifteen songs it contains in memory.
Any song can be played at any time, even if it is repeated. There are 5 songs by Band A, 3
songs by Band B, 2 by Band C, and 5 by Band D. If the player has just played two songs in a
row by Band D, what is the probability that the next song will also be by Band D?
1. 1 in 5
2. 1 in 3
3. 1 in 9
4. 1 in 27
5. Not enough data to determine.
9. Referring again to the MP3 player described in Question 8, what is the probability that the
next two songs will both be by Band B?
1. 1 in 25
2. 1 in 3
3. 1 in 5
4. 1 in 9
5. Not enough data to determine.
10. If a bag of balloons consists of 47 white balloons, 5 yellow balloons, and 10 black
balloons, what is the approximate likelihood that a balloon chosen randomly from the bag
will be black?
1. 19%
2. 16%
3. 21%
4. 33%
11. In a lottery game, there are 2 winners for every 100 tickets sold on average. If a man buys
10 tickets, what is the probability that he is a winner?
1. 21.5%
2. 20%
3. 18.3%
4. 2%

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