AP Statistics › How to use the addition rule
Assume there is an election involving three parties: D, R, and I. The probability of D winning is .11, R winning is .78, and I winning is .11. What is the probability of D or R winning?
Students collected 150 cans for a food drive. There were 23 cans of corn, 48 cans of beans, and 12 cans of tomato sauce. If a student randomly selects one can to give away, what is the probability that the can will be either tomato sauce or beans?
When rolling a 6 sided dice, what is the probability of rolling a 2 or a 4?
At a business conference, one participant was selected to give a presentation. There were total participants.
had business degrees and
did not.
were entrepreneurs and
were not.
of those with business degrees were entrepreneurs. What is the probability that the person selected will have a business degree or be an entrepreneur?
If and
, what is
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A person is drawing a single card from a regular deck of 52 cards. What is the probability that they draw a heart or a spade?
150 students are athletes at the school. 65 play baseball, 15 play basketball, and 10 play both basketball and baseball.
What is the probability that a randomly selected athlete will play either baseball or basketball or both sports?
A student randomly selected a highlighter from her desk. There were five highlighters on the desk, each of a different color--blue, green, yellow, red, and orange. What is the probability that the student selected either the red or the yellow highlighter?
If 1 card is chosen at random from a deck of cards, what is the probability that it will be a heart or a king?
Billy likes to play sports. He plays baseball 30% of his afternoons, and soccer 40%. But he gets tired so he only plays both sports in the same day 15% of the time.
How many days a week does Billy play sports? (with rounding)