Outcomes - ISEE Middle Level Math

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There are 6 red marbles, 4 purple marbles, and 9 green marbles in a bag. What is the probablility of randomly drawing a green marble?

Answer

First we need to determine the total number of marbles in the bag:

\dpi{100} 6+4+9=19\ marbles

There are 9 green marbles, so the probability of drawing one of those 9 marbles out of 19 possible marbles is \dpi{100} \frac{9}{19}.

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A loaded coin is tossed times, with the result being heads times. Based on this observation, what is the probability that the next toss of this coin will be tails?

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The probability of an event based on observation (empirical probability) can be calculated by dividing the number of times the event occurs by the number of trials total. Since there were trials and heads, there were tails.

The probability of tails is therefore given by the number of tails divided by the total number of trials. Both terms are divisible by , allowing us to simplify the fraction.

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There are 5 yellow pebbles, 12 orange pebbles, and 8 red pebbles. What is the probability of picking a red or yellow pebble?

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There are 13 yellow and red pebbles. There are 25 pebbles total. Therefor the probability of choosing a red or yellow pebble is .

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Two fair six-sided dice are thrown. What is the probability that the product of the two numbers rolled is between and inclusive?

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The rolls that yield a product between and inclusive are:

Therefore there are rolls that fit our criteria out of a total of possible rolls, so the probability of this outcome is .

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There are 32 marbles in a bag: 7 are Red, 11 are Blue, 8 are Purple and 6 are Green. If I pick one marble out of the bag, which color would it most likely be?

Answer

Find the color with the largest number of marbles in the bag.

Answer: There are more blue marbles in the bag, therefore it would be more likely to pick a blue marble.

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The red queens are removed from a standard deck of fifty-two cards. What is the probability that a card randomly drawn from that modified deck will be a face card (jack, queen, king)?

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There are four cards of each rank in a standard deck; since three ranks - jacks, queens, kings - are considered face cards, this makes twelve face cards out of the fifty-two. But two of those face cards - two red queens - have been removed, so now there are ten face cards out of fifty. This makes the probability of a randomly drawn card being a face card

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A bag of marbles contains 8 black marbles, 4 red marbles, 3 blue marbles, and 5 white marbles. What is the probability of not drawing a black marble?

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Probability is determined by dividing the possible number of instances of a particular outcome by the total number of possible outcomes. Therefore, we need to find the probability of drawing red, blue, or white divided by the total number of outcomes.

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Jamie rolled a normal 6-sided die. What is the probability of rolling a number greater than 4?

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Probability is determined by dividing the number of incidences of a specific outcome (in this case rolling greater than 4, or rolling a 5 or 6) by the total number of outcomes (there are 6 sides to the die).

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What is the probability of drawing a diamond from a regular set of playing cards?

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Probability is determined by dividing the number of outcomes of a particular event by the total number of events. In a regular deck of playing cards, there are 52 cards and 13 diamonds.

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Two fair dice are thrown. What is the probability that the difference of the numbers that show on the dice will be exactly ?

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The following rolls result in the difference of the dice being :

and the reverse of each of these.

These are rolls out of a possible , so the probability of this event is

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If you meet a random person on the street, what is the probability he or she was born on a weekend?

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There are seven days in a week.

The probability that a person you meet was born on any particular day is .

The question asks for the probability that the person you meet was born on a weekend (Saturday or Sunday). Therefore, we must add the probability of being born on either day:

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A pair of fair dice are thrown. Which of these events has probability ?

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One-ninth of the 36 possible rolls is 4, so we are looking for an outcome that can happen four ways.

There are 6 ways that both dice can show the same number - double 1, double 2, and so forth.

There are 3 ways to roll a sum of 10: (4,6), (5,5), and (6,4).

There are 6 ways to roll a sum divisible by 6: (1,5), (2,4), (3,3), (4,2), and (5,1) all yield 6, and (6,6) yields 12.

There are 4 ways to roll a sum of 5: (1,4), (2,3), (3,2), and (4,1).

There are 3 ways to roll a sum of 4: (1,3), (2,2), (3,1).

The correct choice is the event that the sum of the dice is 5.

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What is the probability of drawing a red jack from a standard deck of playing cards?

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A standard deck contains cards including jacks, of which are red. Therefore, the probability is:

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A bag contains red marbles, pink marbles, and purple marbles. What is the probability of not choosing a purple marble?

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The probability (p) is equal to the number of a specific event (purple marbles) divided by the total number of events. The probability of NOT p (called q) is equal to In this example:

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There are 4 green marbles, 5 yellow marbles, and 3 red marbles in a bag. If one is picked out of the bag at random, what is the probability that it will be a red marble?

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To find probability, you have to consider part over whole. The total number of marbles is 12. Then, identify how many red marbles there are (3). From there, you can make a fraction , which can be simplified to .

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Billy's mom baked a pizza with eight slices. Half the slices have pepperoni only. Two of the slices have both pepperoni and onions. One slice has onions only. One slice has only cheese.

If Billy is allergic to pepperoni, and takes a slice of pizza with his eyes blindfolded, what is the percentage chance that he will select a piece he is not allergic to?

Answer

The pizza that Billy's mom baked was composed of these types of slices:

Half the slices have pepperoni only. Two of the slices have both pepperoni and onoins. One slice has onions only. One slice has only cheese.

Therefore,

slices had pepperoni because

slices had pepperoni and onions

slice had onion only

slice had only cheese.

Billy could eat either the onion only slice, or the cheese only slice. This means that out of pieces of pizza, he could eat .

Given that is the percent equivalent of , that is the correct answer.

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10% of puppies are born with spots. Of those, 50% have black spots. What is the percentage of puppies who have black spots?

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If 10 percent of puppies are born with spots, and of those, 50 percent have black spots, then the total percent of puppies who have spots AND the color of the spots is black can be found by multiplying the two percentages by one another:

0.05 is the equivalent of 5 percent, the correct answer.

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At Lisa's school, of her class consists of girls. There are students in her class. On the first day of school, girls wore skirts. How many girls did not wear skirts?

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Given that of the class is girls, and there are students, we must first determine how many girls are in the class.

Because is double the value of , is double the value of . should be half of .

If of the girls wear skirts, then we can subtract to find the number of girls not wearing skirts.

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Jenny entered a raffle with 9 other participants. The raffle ticket numbers are:

288, 289, 290, 291, 292, 292, 294, 295, 296, 297

Jenny's ticket is 288. The raffler begins to announce the winning ticket. The first digits are 2 and 8. He is about to announce the third digit.

What are the chances that Jenny won?

Answer

There are 10 total participants in the raffle.

288, 289, 290, 291, 292, 292, 294, 295, 296, 297

Only 2 participants have tickets with numbers that beging in 2 and 8.; therefore, Jenny has a 50 percent chance of holding the winning raffle ticket.

The winner is either 288 or 289, leaving Jenny a 50 percent chance.

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Gina has a bag of 12 marbles. The bag is half black marbles and half white marbles. If Gina picks out two random marbles, and both are white, what is the percent chance that the next marble she picks will also be white?

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Given that in Gina’s bag of 12 marbles, half of them are black and half are white, this means that there are 6 black marbles and 6 white marbles. However, because she already picked out 2 white marbles, this means that there are now only 4 out of 10 white marbles left. 4 out of 10 converts to 40 percent, which is therefore the correct answer.

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