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Module Test Form A2 Probability

1. Kennan spins the spinner with 8 equal-size sections shown below one
time. Order the events from least likely (1) to most likely (4).

_____2____spinning a 5 or a 6

_____3____ spinning a number less than 4

_____1____ spinning a 3

_____4____ spinning an even number

2. A box contains 6 red pencils, 10 blue pencils, 8 black pencils, and 4 green pencils. What is
the best description of the likelihood of selecting a green pencil at random from the box?
Ⓐ impossible Ⓒ equally likely Ⓔ certain
Ⓑ unlikely Ⓓ likely Ⓕ uncertain

3. Which of the following best describes the likelihood of the spinner landing
on a number greater than 2?
Ⓐ unlikely
Ⓑ equally likely
Ⓒ likely
Ⓓ certain

4. Carissa rolled a number cube 40 times. The table shows the Number Rolled Frequency
cumulative results of each roll. What is the relative frequency 1 5
of rolling a 4? Select all that apply. 2 8
1 3 5
Ⓐ
10 4 7
7 5 6
Ⓑ
40 6 9
Ⓒ 0.175
Ⓓ 17.5%
Ⓔ 57.1%

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5. The table shows the number of students in Mindy’s class

who voted for different field trip destinations. What is the Destination Choice Frequency
relative frequency that a student chose the zoo? Express Museum 7
your answer as a fraction in simplest form. Zoo 7
1 Nature Center 8
4 State Park 6

6. The relative frequency bar graph shows the breakdown of

the prizes earned from a certain booth at the school
carnival.
Part A How likely do you think it is that a randomly
selected player won a prize? Explain your reasoning.

Sample answer: It is a little less than equally likely that a

randomly selected player wins a prize because the bars for
small prize and large prize would be a little shorter than the bar
for no prize if they were stacked on top of each other.

Part B What is the experimental probability that a randomly

selected player won a prize? How does this compare to your
answer from Part A? Explain your reasoning.
0.52; Sample answer: This is slightly less than 0.48, so the
answer from Part A makes sense.

7. During the first several rounds of a golfing league, Nate made par or better on 34 out of 85
holes. Based on this relative frequency, how many pars or better could he be expected to
make on the remaining 150 holes? Round to the nearest whole number if necessary.
Ⓐ 45 pars or better
Ⓑ 55 pars or better
Ⓒ 60 pars or better
Ⓓ 70 pars or better

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8. The table shows the number of tickets sold to different Type of Tickets Sold Last
kinds of movies at a theater last month. The manager of Movie Month
the theater expects to sell 7,000 movie tickets next month. action 2,275
The theater earns $4.75 profit on each movie ticket sold. comedy 1,482
Based on last month’s results how much profit can the drama 743
theater manager expect to earn from ticket sales to action romance 500
movies next month?
$15,128.75

9. The spinner shown is spun once. What is the sample space?

Ⓐ1
Ⓑ4
Ⓒ 1, 3, 4, 7
Ⓓ 1, 3, 3, 4, 4, 4, 7, 7

10. A contestant on a game show will choose one envelope at Prize Number of Envelopes
random. The table shows the prize distribution of the $0 8
envelopes. What is the theoretical probability that the $5 15
contestant will win $25?
$25 30
0.4
$100 12
$1,000 10

11. Suppose a 3 is rolled on a number cube with sides numbered 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6.

Part A Which outcome(s) make up the complement of this event? Select all that apply.
Ⓐ rolling a 1
Ⓑ rolling a 2
Ⓒ rolling a 3
Ⓓ rolling a 4
Ⓔ rolling a 5
Ⓕ rolling a 6

Part B What is the probability of the complement written as a fraction in simplest form?
5
6

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12. A spinner with 8 equal-size sections labeled as shown is spun 300 times.
How many times would you expect to spin a consonant? Explain your
reasoning.
Sample answer: 225 times; There are 6 spaces with consonants
6 n
and 2 spaces with vowels. Set up and solve a proportion: =
8 300
.

13. Jermel spins a spinner with 4 equal-size sections that are colored red, blue, green, and
yellow 30 times. Cecilia selects a marble at random from a bag with 5 red marbles, 7 blue
marbles, 2 green marbles, and 3 yellow marbles. She then replaces the marble and repeats
the experiment 30 times. The frequency bar graphs shown represent each situation.

Which graph best represents the results that can be expected from Jermel’s experiment?
Graph B

Which graph best represents the results that can be expected from Cecilia’s experiment?
Graph A

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14. Mark selects a letter tile at random from a bag with 5 tiles labeled A, E, I,
O, and U. Then he replaces the tile and mixes them in the bag. He repeats
this 200 times and records the results in a frequency table. Ama spins the
spinner shown below 200 times and records her results in a frequency
table. Describe what would you expect to see in a frequency bar graph for
each experiment. Explain you reasoning.
Sample answer: The frequencies in the graph for Mark’s experiment
should be fairly uniform because each outcome has an equal theoretical
probability. The frequencies in the graph for Ama’s experiment should
not be uniform because the theoretical probabilities of the outcomes are not
equal. For example, the theoretical probability of spinning an A, E, or U is
about 0.25. However, the theoretical probability of spinning an I or an O is
about 0.125.

15. Scott has several different types of songs in a playlist. Type of Song Number of Songs
Suppose he plays a song at random from the playlist. country 12
How much greater is the probability that the plays a hip hop 15
country song than a rock song? jazz 3
Ⓐ 0.05 Ⓒ 0.275 rock 10
Ⓑ 0.1 Ⓓ 0.375

16. A deli offers the types of bread and sandwiches shown in the Type of Bread Type of Sandwich
table. Suppose a customer selects a type of bread and a type of white chicken
sandwich at random from the menu. If a tree diagram is used to
wheat veggie
determine the sample space, how many possible outcomes are
rye turkey
there?
ham
15 club

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17. Woo rolls two number cubes with sides labeled 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6.
Part A Draw a table to show all of the possible outcomes in the sample space.
1, 1 1, 2 1, 3 1, 4 1, 5 1, 6
2, 1 2, 2 2, 3 2, 4 2, 5 2, 6
3, 1 3, 2 3, 3 3, 4 3, 5 3, 6
4, 1 4, 2 4, 3 4, 4 4, 5 4, 6
5, 1 5, 2 5, 3 5, 4 5, 5 5, 6
6, 1 6, 2 6, 3 6, 4 6, 5 6, 6

Part B What is the probability that Woo will roll a sum of 11? Explain your reasoning.
1
P(sum of 11) = ; Sample answer: There are 36 possible outcomes and 2 favorable
18
outcomes.

18. Keyla flips a coin and spins the spinner with 8 equal-size sections shown
below once. After 40 trials of the experiment, the relative frequency of
1
flipping heads and spinning yellow is . What is the difference between
5
the number of actual outcomes and the number of expected outcomes?
Ⓐ 2 outcomes
Ⓑ 3 outcomes
Ⓒ 4 outcomes
Ⓓ 5 outcomes

19. Gabriella is a 75% free throw shooter which means that on average she makes 3 out of 4
free throw attempts. The table shows the results of 10 trials of a simulation where “Y”
represents a made free throw and “N” represents a missed free throw. According to the
results of the simulation, what is the experimental probability that Gabriella makes both of
her next 2 free throw attempts?

Trial 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
First Attempt N Y Y N Y Y N Y Y Y
Second Attempt Y Y N Y Y N Y Y N Y

0.4

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20. Amy competes on her school’s archery team. On average she hits a bullseye 2 out of every
3 arrows. She shoots 7 arrows during each round of competition. Describe a simulation that
you could run to estimate the number of bullseyes Amy will hit during her next round.
Explain your reasoning.
Sample answer: Roll a number cube and let the outcomes 1, 2, 3, and 4 represent hitting a
bullseye. Let the outcomes 5 and 6 represent not hitting a bullseye. Roll the number cube 7
times for each trial of the simulation. Complete several trials of the simulation and find the
average number of bullseyes hit.

21. Melanie designs and conducts a computer simulation with 20 trials and uses the data to
create the relative frequency bar graph shown. The graph shows the relative frequency of
the number of spins needed in order to land on all six equal sized sections of a spinner.

According to the results of the simulation, what is the experimental probability that 12 or
more spins are needed to land on all of the sections? Express your answer as a percent.
40%

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