Independent and Dependent Probability

Ricardo has the spinner pictured here and a bag of marbles filled with 2 red marbles, 3 green marbles, and 3 blue marbles. What is the probability that Ricardo spins red on the spinner and picks a red marble out of the bag?

• 1 ⁄ 16
• 1 ⁄ 2
• 1 ⁄ 4
• 1 ⁄ 8

What is the probability of rolling a dice and landing on a 4, and then rolling the dice again and landing on any even number?

• 1 ⁄ 6
• 1 ⁄ 8
• 1 ⁄ 2
• 1 ⁄ 12

Is the event INDEPENDENT or DEPENDENT?
You have a jar with 24 pieces of chocolate candy and 14 pieces of orange candy.  We take one piece of candy at random from the jar, put it back, and then take a second piece of candy at random from the jar.

• Independent
• Dependent

Is the event INDEPENDENT or DEPENDENT?

Amy plays card games. She picks a card at random. Then without putting the first card back, she picks a second card at random.

• Independent

• Dependent

Is the event INDEPENDENT or DEPENDENT?
The spinner is spun twice.  What is the probability that it lands on red first and then blue?

• Independent
• Dependent

A bag has 2 yellow marbles and 8 brown marbles. Nancy takes out two marbles without replacing the marbles. What is the probability that they will both be yellow?

• 2/19

• 1/10

• 1/25

• 1/45

Suppose a number cube is rolled twice. What is the probability that an odd number will show both times?

• 1/3
• 1/2
• 1/6
• 1/4

A coin is tossed and a number cube is rolled. Find the probability,  P(heads and 7).

• 1/14
• 1/2
• 0
• 1/7

A bag contains 2 striped cubes, 5 dotted cubes, 5 white cubes and 3 red cubes. What is the probability of drawing two striped cubes in succession, without replacing the first cube drawn?

• independent

• dependent

Clinton has a bag of Skittles™. Inside the bag are 6 red, 4 orange, 7 yellow, 3 purple and 4 green Skittles™. What is the probability of drawing a green Skittle™, replacing it, and then drawing another green Skittle™?

• independent

• dependent