Maria is flipping a coin. What is the theoretical probability the coin will land on heads?
What is 1/2 or 50%?
Layla flipped a coin 10 times and landed on heads 4 times. What is the experimental probability of landing on heads?
What is 2/5 or 40%?
If you flip a coin 10 times, about how many times should it land on heads?
The classic wood carousel at Carousel Park in Hampton, VA has 32 horses and 16 of them are standing horses. What is the probability of randomly selecting a standing horse?
What is 1/2 or 50%?
Jason rolled a die twenty times. He landed on 2 five times, 3 seven times, 6 two times, and 5 six times. What is the experimental probability of landing on 6?
1/10 or 10%
What is the probability of rolling a number greater than 2 with a standard number cube?
What is 2/3 or 66%?
A letter tile is randomly selected from a bag, recorded, and replaced 100 times. The results are listed below. What is the experimental probability of selecting the letter "E"? A = 16 E = 11 I = 29 O = 19 U = 25
11/100 or 11%
How likely is it that a number cube is tossed and it lands on 8?
Impossible
There are 4 red marbles, 3 green marbles, and 1 yellow marble in a box. One marble is taken out of the box. What is the probability that the marble is red or yellow?
What is 5/8 or 62.5%?
Pedro recorded the types of birds that visit his bird feeder. Based on the results below, what is the probability the next bird will be a chickadee? (FIND TOTAL FIRST) Woodpecker = 3 Chickadee = 5 Cardinal = 1 Sparrow = 13 Blue Jay = 3
1/5 or 20%
There are 20 students in Ms. Williams class. The theoretical probability of choosing a female student to answer a question is 40%. How many girls are in the class? (use percent proportion 40/100 = ? )
8 girls
Describe the difference between events that are certain, likely, unlikely, or impossible.
Certain would be 100% of the time, likely is anything greater than 50% of the time, unlikely is anything less than 50% of the time, and impossible is anything that has a 0% chance of occuring.
Jarvonya spins a spinner with 5 equal sections numbered 1-5. What is the probability she will spin and land on 2?
What is 1/5 or 20%?
I flipped a coin 20 times, I got heads 12 times and tails 8 times. What is the experimental probability of flipping heads?
3/5 or 60%
Carley's chance of winning a raffle is 1/5. If there are 30 tickets in the bucket, how many of the tickets have Carley's name on it?
6
What do you call something that has a 50% chance of occurring?
Equally likely
How likely is it that you're being good for the substitute?
Likely (hopefully)