MAT 155 Chapter 4
The following is a brief review of Chapter 4. This
does NOT cover all the material in that
chapter.
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Thanks to Ms. Valerie Melvin for her portion of this review.
Dr. Claude Moore, Math Instructor, CFCC
A bag contains 6 red marbles, 3 blue
marbles, and 7 green marbles. If a
marble is randomly selected from the
bag, what is the probability that it is
blue?
1/3
1/7
3/16
1/13
0%
1/
13
0%
3/
16
0%
1/
7
0%
1/
3
1.
2.
3.
4.
Assume that one student in a class of
27 students is randomly selected to
win a prize. Would it be ‘unusual’ to
win?
1. Yes
2. No
0%
No
Ye
s
0%
A die with 8 sides is rolled. What is the
probability of rolling a number less
than 7?
7/8
6
3/4
1/8
0%
1/
8
0%
3/
4
0%
6
0%
7/
8
1.
2.
3.
4.
If a person is randomly selected, find
the probability that his or her birthday
is in May. Ignore leap years.
0%
0%
31
/3
65
0%
1/
31
0%
1/
12
1/365
1/12
1/31
31/365
1/
36
5
1.
2.
3.
4.
A bag contains 8 red marbles, 4 blue
marbles, and 1 green marble. Find
P(not blue).
9/13
9
13/9
4/13
0%
4/
13
0%
13
/9
0%
9
0%
9/
13
1.
2.
3.
4.
Of 45 people who answered “yes” to a question,
13 were male. Of the 83 people that answered
“no” to a question, 7 were male. If one person
is selected at random from the group, find the
probability that the person answered “yes” or
was male.
0.156
0.406
0.289
0.508
0%
.5
08
0%
.2
89
0%
.4
06
0%
.1
56
1.
2.
3.
4.
How many ways can an IRS auditor
select 6 of 11 tax returns for an audit?
0%
0%
72
0
0%
17
71
56
1
0%
33
26
40
462
332,640
1,771,561
720
46
2
1.
2.
3.
4.
There are 8 members on a board of
directors. If they must elect a
chairperson, a secretary, and a
treasurer, how many different slates of
candidates are possible?
56
336
512
40,320
0%
40
32
0
0%
51
2
0%
33
6
0%
56
1.
2.
3.
4.
If A and B are dependent events, then
P(A and B) is
1. P(A) x P(B|A)
2. P(A) x P(B)
3. P(A) x P(A|B)
B)
P(
P(
)x
P(
A
P(
A
)x
B|
P(
)x
P(
A
0%
A|
B)
0%
A)
0%
One of the 87 flights is randomly selected. Find the
probability that the flight selected arrived on time
given that it was an Upstate Airlines flight.
0%
0%
of
th
ea
bo
ve
is
c
or
. ..
43
/4
8
0%
No
ne
0%
11
/7
6
43/87
11/76
43/48
None of the above is correct.
43
/8
7
1.
2.
3.
4.