IB Precalculus

UNIT 8 COMBINATORICS AND PROBABILITY

Probability of Exclusive and Inclusive Events

(Homework 8)
Determine if the event is mutually exclusive or inclusive. Then find the
probability.
1. Two dice are tossed.
(a) P(sum is 6 or sum is 9)

(b)P(either die shows a 2)

2. A card is drawn from a standard deck of cards

(a) P(drawing an ace or a red card) (b)P(drawing a king or queen)

3. An auto clubs emergency service team knows from experience that

when a member calls to report that their car wont start, the probability
that the engine is flooded is 12 , the probability that the battery is dead is
2
5

, and the probability that both the engine is flooded and the batter is

1
dead is 10
. What is the probability that the next member to report that
their car wont start has a flooded engine or a dead battery?

4. Five coins are dropped onto the floor. What is the probability that at least
three of them land tails-up?

5. In homeroom, 5 of the 12 girls have blonde hair and 6 of the 15 boys

have blonde hair. What is the probability of randomly selecting a boy or a
blonde-haired person as homeroom representative to the student
council?

6. A card is drawn from a deck of cards. What is the probability that it is a

red card or a face card?

Two faces of a die are red, two are blue, and two are white. The die is
tossed. Find each probability.
7. P(shows either red or blue)

8. P(does not show red)

Kevin has 11 CDs in the glove compartment of his car. Six are rock and 5
are rap. He selects three at random to take to a party. Find each probability.
9. P(all 3 rock or all 3 rap)

10.

P(exactly 2 rap)

11.

12.

P(at least 2 rock)

P(at least 2 rap)

Two cards are drawn from a standard deck of cards. Find each probability.
13. P(both aces or both face cards) 14.

15.

P(both aces or both black)

P(both black or both face cards) 16.

P(both either red or an ace)

There are 7 men and 7 women on the city council. A committee of 6

members is to be selected at random to attend a state convention. Find the
probability of each group being selected.

17.

P(all men or all women)

18.

P(5 men or 5 women)

19.

P(3 men and 3 women)

20.

P(at least 4 women)

The numbers 1 through 25 are written on Ping-Pong balls and placed in a

wire cage. The numbers 20 through 40 are written on Ping-Pong balls and
placed in a different wire cage. One ball is chosen at random from each
spinning cage. Find each probability.
21.

P(each is a 22)

22.

P(neither is a 25)

23.

P(at least one is a 23)

24.

P(each is greater than 10)

25. A bag contains 15 billiard balls, numbered consecutively from 1 to 15.

Six balls are selected at random. What is the probability that the sum of
the numbers on the billiard balls will be odd?

26. The Texas Ranger pitching staff has 5 left-handers and 8 righthanders. If 2 pitchers are selected at random to warm up, what is the
probability that at least one of them is a right-hander?

27. Mrs. Sopher visits two doctors, Dr. Braggs and Dr. Villa, for a
diagnosis. The probability that Dr. Briggs correctly diagnoses a disease is
93
97
100 , and the probability that Dr. Villa correctly diagnoses a disease is 100
. What is the probability that at least one of the two doctors makes the
correct diagnosis?