Conditional Probability Answers

Seventy-five percent of the flowers in the arrangement are roses and the rest are tulips. Of the tulips, 50 percent are pink.To the nearest whole percent, what is the probability that a randomly chosen flower from the arrangement is a pink tulip?

A hat contains slips of paper with the names of the 26 other students in Eduardo’s class on them, 10 of whom are boys. To determine his partners for the group project, Eduardo has to pull two names out of the hat without replacing them.

If events A and B are independent, what must be true?

Nadia’s bookshelf contains 10 fiction books, two reference books, and five nonfiction books.What is the probability that she randomly picks up a reference book and then, without replacing it, picks up a nonfiction book?

A bag contains one red pen, four black pens, and three blue pens. Two pens are randomly chosen from the bag and are not replaced.To the nearest hundredth, what is the probability that a black pen is chosen first and then another black pen is chosen?

Twenty-two percent of the large pieces of mail that Rachel received this week were magazines and the rest were catalogs. Of the catalogs, 36 percent were for clothing.To the nearest whole percent, what is the probability that a randomly chosen large piece of Rachel’s mail was a clothing catalog?

Use the Venn diagram to calculate probabilities.

If events A and B are independent, and the probability that event A occurs is 83%, what must be true?

In the drawing, six out of every 10 tickets are winning tickets. Of the winning tickets, one out of every three awards is a larger prize.What is the probability that a ticket that is randomly chosen will award a larger prize?

Lori downloaded all the pictures she took at Rita’s wedding into a single computer folder. She took 86 of the 134 pictures with her camera and the remainder of them with her cell phone. Of the pictures Lori took with her cell phone, one out of every five was blurry.