Probability of Compound Events (Independent and Dependent)

A basket contains four apples and six peaches. You randomly select one piece of fruit and eat it. Then you randomly select another piece of fruit. Both pieces of fruit are apples. P(apple, apple)

• 2/15

• 3/17

• 1/19

• 6/21

Find the probability of selecting a black checker from a bag of 6 black and 4 red checkers, replacing it and selecting another black. 

• 9/25

• 1/4

• 2/23

• 3/41

You roll a pair of number cubes (dice). Which equation represents how to find the probability of rolling a 2 and an odd number?
P(2, then odd)

• ⅙ x ½ = 1/12

• ⅙ + ½ = 2/8

•  ½ x ½ = 1/4

• ⅓ + ½ = 5/6

A bag contains 2 blue marbles, 3 black marbles, and 5 red marbles. Mrs. Grow picks one marble, replaces it, then picks another. What is the probability of them both being blue?
P(blue and blue) 

• 1/25

• 1/5

• 1/20

• 2/5

Determine if the following events are dependent or independent.
Anna draws a card from a bag, does not replace it and draws a second time..

• Independent

• Dependent

The spinner is spun two times.  Determine the probability of landing on red the first spin and on green the second spin .

• 1/9

• 1/10

• 0

• 1/12

An event that consists of two or more events

•  event

• dependent events

• experiment

• compound event

Two events such that the occurrence of one event does not affect the likelihood that the other event(s) will occur

• dependent events

• independent events

• experiment

• event

Two events such that the occurrence of one event affects the likelihood that the other event(s) will occur

• event

• compound event

• dependent events

• independent events

The set of all possible outcomes of one or more events

• favorable outcomes

• sample space

• experiment

• compound event