Probability Practice 3: Cards, Selection And Real-life Contexts

Practise focused skills from Probability

MathematicsGrade 10Mixed10 questions20 min

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Selection Problems

Cards, numbers and classroom contexts.

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Question 1

MediumQuestion

A card is drawn from a standard deck of $52$ cards. What is the probability of drawing an ace?

Topic: Card and Selection Problems · Skill: Solve simple card or selection probabilities

Question 2

AdvancedQuestion

From numbers $1$ to $20$ , one number is selected at random. What is the probability of selecting a square number?

Topic: Card and Selection Problems · Skill: Solve simple card or selection probabilities

Question 3

MediumQuestion

A classroom jar has $6$ blue, $4$ green and $5$ yellow tokens. What is the probability of choosing a green token?

Topic: Real-life Contexts · Skill: Model everyday likelihood problems

Question 4

AdvancedQuestion

A game spinner has $8$ equal sectors: $3$ red, $2$ blue and $3$ yellow. What is the probability of not landing on blue?

Topic: Real-life Contexts · Skill: Model everyday likelihood problems

Question 5

MediumQuestion

A box contains $10$ slips numbered $1$ to $10$ . What is $P(\text{number greater than }6)$ ?

Topic: Classical Probability · Skill: Apply classical probability definition

What this assignment covers

Solve selection problems and avoid denominator mistakes.

Skills and sections

Solve simple card or selection probabilities, Model everyday likelihood problems, Apply classical probability definition, List sample space for simple experiments, Use complement of an event

Selection Problems: 5 questions
Reasoning and Errors: 5 questions