HIGHLINE SCHOOL DISTRICT                                                      School:   _________________

FIRST YEAR MATH OLYMPIAD  March 25, 2000

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                                                                                                               Team Number:  ___________

Probability and Statistics

                                                                                                              

 

1.         What is the probability of rolling a sum of 9 with 2 fair dice?

 

 

 

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2.         If you draw two cards from a standard deck of 52 cards, what is the probability that they will both be face cards?

 

 

 

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3.         Students in Mrs. Ashley’s English class had to pick 2 of the 4 Shakespeare plays below to read. Assuming the students chose randomly, what is the probability of a student choosing both Hamlet and Macbeth?

                        Hamlet                                    Macbeth

                        Othello                                    Julius Caesar

 

 

 

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4.         Find the mean, mode, median, and range of this data set.

            40, 15, 18, 26, 15, 42, 18, 15, 9

 

 

 

 

mean  _________________          mode  _________________

 

median  _________________       range  _________________

 

5.         I have a bag of marbles with 7 green marbles, 11 blue marbles, and 8 red marbles.  What is the probability of drawing 2 red marbles at random out of this bag?