PACE Academy 1. A card is randomly chosen from a standard deck.

Let A be the event that

MATHEMATICS H4 the randomly chosen card is either a heart or a ten?
QUIZ 4.4
Simple Probability, Addition Law of Probability a) How many elements are there in the sample space?

b) List the elements of the event? Find n(A).

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c) Find the probability of event A.
A. Write MP if the situation shows mathematical probability and EP otherwise,
then find the answer.

______1) If a car factory checks 320 cars and 12 of them have defects, d) Find the probability that the card is a red or a face card?
how many out of 560 will NOT have defects?

______2) A ball is drawn at random from a jar containing 5 red balls, 4

green balls, and 3 blue balls. If 3 balls are chosen at random, find the e) Find the probability that the card is neither a heart nor an even
probability that a green ball is drawn? numbered card?

______3) Three 25-centavo coins are tossed. What is the probability of

getting 3 tails?
______4) A spinner with 5 sectors A, B, C, D, and E is spun 1000 times, and A
occurred 275 times. What is the probability that A will occur?
______5) A card is drawn from a deck of 52 playing cards. What is the
probability that the card is drawn is a black ace card?
2. Inside the cubbyhole of G10, there are 15 math books in which 12 are
owned by girls, 20 science books in which 10 are owned by girls, and 18
english books in which 8 are owned by girls. Assume the books are owned by
different people. If a book is randomly chosen,
a) How many elements are there in the sample space?

______6) Liezl tosses a coin 400 times and gets 216 heads. What is the
probability of obtaining a tail? b) what is the probability that the book is math or English?
______7) A die is rolled 250 times, number 3 appeared 118 times. What is
the probability that the number “3” will appear?
c) what is the probability that the book is math or owned by a girl?
______8) You have five seasons of your favourite TV show on DVD. If you
select two of them from a shelf, what is the probability that you will select
season one first and season two second?
d) what is the probability that the book is English or science?
______9) Fifteen boys and ten girls entered a raffle for a free movie ticket.
What is the probability the ticket is won by a girl?
e) what is the probability that the book is science or owned by a boy?
______10) A coin is tossed nine times. What is the probability that five tails will
come up?

B. Answer the following questions. Show your COMPLETE SOLUTION. Box and f) What is the cardinality of the sample space?
label your final answer.