Spinners
Or/And Statements
Dice or Die
Marbles
Classroom Materials
100
What is the probability of landing on a 6 with a spinner numbered 1-8?
1/8
100
What is the probability that when you are born that your will be a boy or a girl?
1/2 +1/2=1.
1 is the answer.
100
What is the probability of rolling an even number using one die?
1/2
100
If I have a bag with 3 red marbles, two blue, 5 yellow and 6 green, what is the probability of pulling a red marble?
3/16
100
There are 30 pencils and 22 students. What’s the probability of a student not having a pencil?
8/30 = 4/15.
200
What is the probability of spinning on A,B or a C on a spinner labeled A-Z alphabetically?
3/26
200
What is the probability of picking a multiple of 2 and a factor of 16 from the following data set?
1, 4, 7, 8, 16, 3, 2, 11, 13.
4/9 x 4/9 = 16/81
16/81 is the answer!
200
What is the probability of rolling a prime number using one die?
4/6 = 2/3
200
I have a box of M&M’s. There are 100 total candies in the box. 1/4 are red, 1/4 are orange and the rest are green and blue. Orange is are actually peanut butter M&M’s after a taste test. Yuck! What’s the probability of selecting a brown M&M?
0/100 or 0.
200
What is the probability of students sitting in a desk in your math teachers classroom?
The answer is ________.
300
If your options are two A’s, three B’s and one of C, D and E, what is the probability of landing your spinner on an E or B?
4/8 = 1/2
300
What is the probability of rolling two odd numbers using two dice?
9/36 = 1/4
300
What is the probability of rolling a multiple of 1 using one die?
6/6 = 1
300
True or False and explain why.
The probability of selecting any marble from from a bag that contains only red, blue, yellow, purple and black marbles is from a range of 0 to 1.
Again true or false and explain.
True! All probability is between 0 and 1. Over 1 is impossible.
300
There are 23 total people in a math class. What is the probability of there being a teacher in the room?
1/23
400
The spinner is colored. 1/2 is red, 1/4 is blue, 1/8 is yellow and 1/8 is pink.
What is the probability of landing on a yellow or pink?
2/8 = 1/4
400
What is the probability someone in our classroom has glasses or green hair?
The answer is ___________.
400
What is the probability of rolling a factor of 2 using two dice?
6/36 = 1/6
400
What is the probability of picking a green?
10/36 = 5/18
400
In math class, each math student requires a pencil, a math binder and a notebook. There are 25 students in the classroom. What is the probability of a student having all three items in math class?
1 student = pencil, math binder & notebook.
25/25 = 1!
500
The spinner is colored. 1/2 is red, 1/4 is blue, 1/8 is yellow and 1/8 is pink.
What is the probability of landing on a blue or pink?
3/8
500
52 cards make up a deck. There are 13 diamond cards, 13 heart cards, 13 spade cards and 13 club cards. What is the probability of randomly selecting spade, heart or diamond card?
13+13+13= 39
39/52 = 3/4............3/4 is the answer!
500
What is the probability of rolling a divisor of 12 using two dice?
25/36
500
As a percent what is the probability of selecting a red marble?
3/10 = 30%
500
Mr. Leech gave out 42 OCIs this year and handed out 72 ICIs too! If Mr. Leech has a total of 66 math students what is the probability that a math student got an OCI this year?
42/66 = 21/33 = 7/11 is your answer!