Probability Models Quiz 1 (25 MCQs)

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1. What is the probability of spinning green if a spinner has 4 equal sections:red, blue, green, and yellow?
2. Kara uses a random number generator 1, 500 times. Each result has an equal probability of being 1, 2, 3, 4, or 5. Which statement best predicts how many times the digit 3 will appear among the 1, 500 results?
3. If you spin a spinner with 6 equal sections numbered 1 to 6, what is the probability of spinning an even number?
4. Is this a binomial experiment? Shuffle a deck of 52 cards. Turn over the top card. You replace the card each time. Repeat the process 5 times. Let X = the card you observe.
5. Which of the following trials is geometric?
6. Which describes a non-uniform probability model?
7. Layla has 2 pairs of shoes and 6 pairs of socks. If each pair of socks and each pair of shoes has the same probability of being chosen, what is the best simulation to show the probability of choosing any given combination?
8. When all the probabilities in a probability model are not equivalent to each other
9. In a bag of 24 animals, if there are 12 cats and 12 reptiles, what is the probability of selecting a cat or reptile?
10. What is the probability of achieving success with the event:Rolling a die and getting a four?
11. What does the n stand for in the binomial probability formula?
12. You are taking a multiple choice test with 40 questions on it. Each question has 4 answer choices. If you completely guess on each question, how many questions do you expect to guess correctly?
13. Ryan has 4 rap songs, 11 pop songs, 8 country songs, and 2 rock songs. What is the probability of Ryan picking a rock song or a pop song?
14. How many ways ways can you arrange the letters in the word math?
15. A store is handing out coupons worth 10%, 15%, 20%, or 25% off. Each coupon is equally likely to be handed out. Which of the following models could be used to simulate this situation?
16. A coin is tossed ten times. What is the probability that there are exactly 6 heads?
17. What is the probability of flipping a coin and getting heads?
18. You are taking a multiple choice test with 40 questions on it. Each question has 4 answer choices. What is the probability that you will get at no more than 15 correct?
19. What is experimental probability?
20. What does it mean when we say a chance is uniform?
21. Which of the following pairs of events are independent?
22. A data set has most values clustered on the right, with a long tail to the left. How is this distribution described?
23. When a marble is drawn from a bag, there are 10 possible outcomes. The sample space, S = (W, W, W, W, S, S, S, S, B, B), where W represents a white marble, S represents a striped marble, and B represents a black marble.What is the probability of P(S)? (as a fraction)
24. A marksman has 80% accuracy hitting targets at 1, 000 yards. What is the probability that she will make exactly 4 of her next 5 shots?
25. What is the expected number of times a 2 is rolled when a die is thrown 60 times?