Name Class Date
Practice Form K
Compound Probability
For Exercises 1 and 2, determine whether the events are independent or
dependent.
1. Get an odd number on a spinner and a red marble from a bag of marbles.
2. You choose a class member for your study group, then choose an additional
classmate.
3. What is the probability of rolling a 3 on a number cube and choosing a heart
from a deck of cards?
4. In a high school, 53% of the students live less than one mile from the school
and 21% of the students live more than three miles from school. What is the
probability of randomly selecting a student who lives less than one mile from
school or more than three miles from school?
5. What is P(A or B) if P(A) = 1 2
3 and P(B) = 9 , where A and B are overlapping
events?
6. A spinner has 5 equal sections numbered 1 to 5. What is the probability of the
spinner stopping on a number that is a multiple of 2 or is less than 3?
7. On a bookshelf there are 16 fiction books, 8 math books, and 4 cookbooks.
What is the probability that you randomly select a fiction or math book from
the shelf?
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Name Class Date
Practice (continued) Form K
Compound Probability
8. Reasoning Are rolling an even number and rolling a 5 on one roll of a
number cube overlapping events? Explain.
9. Sports On a track and field team, 8% of the members run only long-distance,
32% compete only in field events, and 12% are sprinters only. Find the
probability that a randomly chosen team member runs only long-distance or
competes only in field events.
Use the spinner at the right for Exercises 10–12.
10. What is the probability of the arrow stopping on an
odd number or a number greater than 2? 2 4
1 5
3 6
11. What is the probability of the arrow stopping on “1” on
the first spin and “6” on the second spin?
12. Open-Ended Using the given spinner, describe two events that are
mutually exclusive.
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