We had a hand out that had a question like: "A card is
selected from an ordinary deck of 52 cards. Find the probability that you will
draw a red card, a face card, a 10 cards, etc...”
At first I wasn't having difficulty with it until it got to tougher questions such as, "find the probability of not drawing a face card and not a club card." I had no clue what to do for this one! Thankfully the teacher said that these kinds of questions would not be on the test so I could breathe a sigh of relief! However, with the help from my group we were able to solve it.
On the back of the handout was a separate activity called, "pom pom activity." This is one of the questions that it asked: "A box contains three white balls and two colored balls. A ball is drawn at random form the box and not replaced. Then a second ball is drawn from the box. Draw a tree diagram for this experiment and all possible outcomes. Find the probability that the two balls are different colors." So, if you're anything like me you're already confused and have no idea how to solve this! But, it was actually easier than I thought it would be!
Here is a link explaining how to use tree diagrams: CLICK HERE
Here is a game that you can play to learn more about tree diagrams: CLICK HERE
Here is an example of a tree diagram that I found from THIS WEBSITE:
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