GMAT Quantitative Reasoning › Calculating probability
Sheryl is competing in an archery tournament. She gets to shoot three arrows at a target, and her best one counts.
Sheryl hits the bullseye 42% of the time. What is the probability (two decimal places) that she will hit the bullseye at least once in her three tries?
Two dice are rolled. What is the probability that the sum of both dice is greater than 8?
It costs $10 to buy a ticket to a charity raffle in which three prizes are given - the grand prize is $3,000, the second prize is $1,000, and the third prize is $500. Assuming that all of 1,000 tickets are sold, what is the expected value of one ticket to someone who purchases it?
What is the probability of rolling an even number on a standard dice?
How many even four-digit numbers larger than 4999 can be formed from the numbers 2, 4, 5, and 7 if each number can be used more than once?
What is the probability of sequentially drawing 3 aces from a deck or regular playing cards when the selected cards are not replaced?
A drawer has 4 green socks, 6 blue socks, 12 white socks, 8 black socks, and 2 pink socks. If you reach in and pull out a sock at random, what is the probability the sock will be blue?
Among a group of 300 people, 15% play soccer, 21% play baseball, and 9% play both soccer and baseball. If one person is randomly selected, what is the probability that the person selected will be one who plays baseball but NOT soccer?
If you flip a quarter three times, what is the probability of it landing on heads all three times?
A jar contains 8 blue marbles and 4 red marbles. What is the probability of picking a blue marble followed by a red marble if the first marble chosen is not put back in the jar?