Theoretical
What is the probability of rolling a number cube and landing on 5?
Answer with a fraction, a decimal, and a percent.
1/6, 0.167, 16.7%
Hasaan flips a coin 25 times. It lands on the picture 18 times. What is the experimental probability of landing on the picture?
Answer with a percent.
72%
You are trying to decide what to wear to school. You know you have a green pair of pants, a red pair, and a blue pair. You also have a brown shirt, a plaid shirt, and a yellow shirt. How many different outfit combinations can you make?
Show your work.
9
An ice cream shop has 5 flavors or ice cream. How many ways can they arrange the ice cream display?
120
How likely is it that a coin is flipped and lands on tails?
(Impossible, Unlikely, Equally Likely, Likely, or Certain)
Equally likely
What is the probability of rolling a number cube and landing on a 2 or 4?
Answer with a fraction, a decimal and a percent.
1/4, 0.25, 25%
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 0.11, or 11%
What is the number of possible outcomes for spinning one spinner with 8 equal sections and another spinner with 6 equal sections?
Show your work.
48 possible outcomes
How many ways can the starting 5 players of the archery team stand for the picture?
120
How likely is it that a number cube is tossed and lands on 3?
(Impossible, Unlikely, Equally Likely, Likely, or Certain)
Unlikely
Maria is flipping a coin and spinning a spinner. The spinner has 4 equal sections labeled A-D. What is the probability the coin will land on heads and the spinner will land on the letter "A"?
Answer with a fraction, decimal, and a percent.
1/8, 0.125, 12.5%
33% of people said that math is there favorite subject. How many would you PREDICT to choose math out of 500 people?
165 people
Rouda and Shahad are candidates for class president of the 7th grade. Fatima, Dhay, and Al Maha are candidates for vice president. How many winning combinations are possible?
Show your work.
6
An ice cream store has 20 flavors. Hassan wants to buy a triple scoop with 3 different flavors. How many choices does he have?
6840
How likely is it that a number cube is tossed and it lands on 8?
(Impossible, Unlikely, Equally Likely, Likely, or Certain)
Impossible
There are 3 red balls, 2 green balls, and 1 yellow ball in a box. One marble is taken out and not replaces. A second marble is then taken out and not replaced. What is the probability both marbles that were taken out are red?
1/5, or 0.20, or 20%
A coin is tossed 50 times, and lands on the picture 20 times.
Write a sentence. COMPARE the experimental probability to the theoretical probability.
The experimental probability is 2/5 or 40%. This is LESS than the theoretical probability of 1/2 or 50%
Ms. Hannah is packing for a trip. She packs a white shirt, a pink shirt, a blue shirt, and a green shirt. She also packs a black skirt, a navy skirt, and a gray skirt.
What is the probability that the first outfit she wears is the gray skirt with a pink shirt?
1 out of 12
You have 50 songs on your phone. If the songs are played at random, how many different songs could you hear after 4 songs?
50 x 49 x 48 x 47= 5527200
How likely is it that a number cube is tossed and lands on any number 1-6?
(Impossible, Unlikely, Equally Likely, Likely, or Certain)
Certain
Jarvonya spins a spinner with 5 equal sections numbered 1-5 and she spins another spinner with 5 equal sections with the letters A-E. What is the probability she will spin a 4 and a B?
Draw the sample space. Answer with a fraction, decimal, and a percent.
1/25 or 0.04, or 4%
Pedro recorded the types of birds that visit his bird feeder. Based on the results below, how many sparrows WOULD YOU EXPECT to see if there are 100 birds?
Woodpecker = 3 Chickadee = 5 Cardinal = 1 Sparrow = 13 Blue Jay = 3
52 sparrows
What is the probability of rolling three 4's in a row on a number cube?
1/216
You have 5 seasons of your favorite TV show. If you randomly select 2 seasons, what is the probability that you will select season 1 and season 2?
Answer in fraction, decimal or percent.
2/120 = 1/60 = 0.017 = 1.7%
How likely is it that a number cube lands on 2 and a coin lands on heads?
(Impossible, Unlikely, Equally Likely, Likely, or Certain)
unlikely