Probability with Combinations and Permutations Answers

Two unique letters are chosen at random from the alphabet.What is the approximate probability that the first letter chosen is A?

A standard deck of 52 playing cards contains 13 cards in each of four suits: diamonds, hearts, clubs, and spades. Two cards are chosen from the deck at random.What is the approximate probability of choosing one club and one heart?

Two boys and three girls are auditioning to play the piano for a school production. Two students will be chosen, one as the pianist, the other as the alternate.What is the probability that the pianist will be a boy and the alternate will be a girl? Express your answer as a percent.

The track team gives awards for first, second, and third place runners. There are 10 students from school A and 12 students from school B competing.Which expression represents the probability that all three awards will go to a student from school B?

A restaurant offers three vegetable side dishes, two fruit side dishes, and five grain-based side dishes. Each entree comes with two side dishes.What is the approximate probability of randomly choosing one vegetable and one grain-based side dish?

Two children are playing a code-breaking game. One child makes a sequence of three colors from red, yellow, blue, and purple. The other child must guess the sequence of colors in the correct order. Once one color is used, it cannot be repeated in the sequence.

A student wants to check six websites. Four of the websites are social and two are school-related. After checking just two sites, she has to leave for school.What is the approximate probability that she checked a social website first, then a school-related website?

A student must choose to participate in two different events during field day. There are four track events, two academic events, and six team sports events.What is the approximate probability that the student will choose to participate in two team sports?

A standard deck of 52 playing cards contains four of each numbered card 2–10 and four each of aces, kings, queens, and jacks. Two cards are chosen from the deck at random.Which expression represents the probability of drawing a king and a queen?

A bag contains 10 red marbles, 15 yellow marbles, 5 green marbles, and 20 blue marbles. Five marbles are drawn from the bag.What is the approximate probability that exactly two of the five are blue?