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Probability and Composite Events
Probability of Mutually Exclusive Events
Your Turn!
CARDS
Probability of Independent Events You draw a card from a standard deck of playing
cards. What is the probability that the card will be a
GAMES club or a red face card?
Find the probability of rolling doubles four times in
a row when rolling a pair of number cubes. A. 3
104
1
A.
3808 3
B.
1 102
B. 1296
C. 19
52
1
C.
256 39
D.
2 52
D. 3
Answer
Answer
Probability of Dependent Events
COOKIES
A plate has 6 chocolate chip cookies, 4 peanut
butter cookies, and 5 sugar cookies. What is the
probability of randomly selecting a chocolate chip
cookie followed by a sugar cookie?
1
A.
30
1
B. 7
11
C.
30
159
D. 210
Answer
171
