Weighted Averages — Unit test Answers

Over the past year, Becky has enjoyed 7 of the 9 movies recommended by her local newspaper. She wants to design a spinner she can use to simulate this situation and predict the probability that she will enjoy each of the next 5 movies the paper recommends.How should Becky divide her spinner to best simulate this situation?

Jordan is using a six-sided number cube to predict whether people shopping in the mall arrive by car or by bus. Based on data gathered in a survey, Jordan decided that a roll of 1 or 2 would represent a person having taken the bus, while any other outcome would represent arriving by car.Which statement best describes Jordan’s simulation?

Which describes dependent events?

The spinner is equally likely to land on any of the five sections.

The table below shows the possible outcomes of rolling a six-sided number cube and flipping a coin.What is the probability of getting a number less than 3 and a tails?

The weather report states that the probability it will rain on Wednesday is 30 percent and the probability that it will rain on Saturday is 60 percent.What is the probability that it will rain on Wednesday and on Saturday?

Nico owns 11 instructional piano books. Two are beginner books, six are intermediate books, and three are advanced books.If two books are randomly chosen from the collection, one at a time, and replaced after each pick, what is the probability that he first chooses an advanced book and then chooses a beginner book?

A survey asked about the number of people who eat breakfast almost every day (B) and the number of people who buy cereal at least once a month (C). The results of the survey are shown in the Venn diagram.

How many 2-letter combinations can be created from the distinct letters in the word “mathematician”? Assume that the order of the letters does not matter.

Maggie’s bank has assigned her a temporary 3-digit PIN to use with her ATM card. Each digit is a number from 1 to 5, inclusive, and no digit can be used more than once in the PIN. Which multiplication problem can be used to determine the probability that the PIN she was assigned was 123?

A high school is hosting a blood drive. The sign-up sheet has 5 slots available for Mr. Bentley’s class and 6 slots available for Ms. Curren’s class. If there are 21 students in Mr. Bentley’s class and 23 students in Ms. Curren’s class, which expression represents the number of possible groups of students that can fill the 11 available slots?

Byron bought a keyless entry door lock that has the digits 0 through 9 on the keypad. He wants to choose a three-digit entry code. How many different combinations are possible, if the digits can be repeated?

Use the information in the table to answer the question. Eitan and Asher are playing a game using two six-sided number cubes. To win the game, Eitan has to roll a sum of 11 or more. Which outcome would allow Asher to have a higher probability of winning the game? Select three options.

There are 5 customers currently present in a coffee shop. Three of the customers are waiting in line at the front register. How many different lines of customers are possible?

A prize bag contains four country music CDs, eight pop music CDs, and five classic rock CDs.What is the probability of pulling out a classic rock CD and then, without replacing it, pulling out a country music CD? Express your answer in decimal form, rounded to the nearest hundredth.