Question

Jason is playing a game. He has two sets of cards. One set has three red cards, numbered 1, 2 and 3. The other set has four green cards, numbered 4, 5, 6 and 8. Jason chooses a red card and a green card at random. He works out his score by adding the numbers on the two cards together. A sample space diagram is drawn below. Work out the probability that Jason gets a score of 9 or more.

Answer 1

1/3

Explanation:

There are 12 different sums.

4 of the sums are 9, 9, 10, 11.

All other sums are 8 or less.

p(9 or more) = 4/12 = 1/3