Probability

Virginia SOL PS.P.1

Organize information and apply probability rules to compute event probabilities.

What students need to be able to do

  • Determine whether events are complementary, dependent, independent, and/or mutually exclusive, and compute their probabilities.
  • Represent and calculate probabilities using Venn diagrams, tree diagrams, and two-way tables.
  • Apply the addition rule, multiplication rule, and complementary rule to calculate probabilities.
  • Calculate conditional probabilities to determine event association or independence.