Experimental Probability
An experiment consists of pushing the random button on an playlist and seeing what artists come up. The following results occurred: Taylor Swift - 7, Bruno Mars - 4, Beyonce - 6, and Drake - 8. This is the experimental probability of the next artist being Bruno Mars.
What is 4/25?
This is the theoretical probability of rolling an even number on a die.
What is 1/2 or 50%?
Independent or Dependent? Drawing a card and flipping a coin.
What is independent.
Penni has 4 pairs of shorts, 6 t-shirts, and 3 pairs of sandals. This is how many different outfits she could make.
What is 72?
This is the sample space for the rolling an 8 sided die.
What is {1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8}
An experiment consists of pushing the random button on an playlist and seeing what artists come up. The following results occurred: Taylor Swift - 7, Bruno Mars - 4, Beyonce - 6, and Drake - 8. This is the experimental probability of the next artist NOT being Taylor Swift.
What is 18/25?
This is the theoretical probability of randomly selecting a vowel from all the letters in the word VOWEL.
What is 2/5 or 40%?
Independent or Dependent? Picking a contestant from a crowd and then picking another contestant from the same crowd.
What is dependent?
Permutation or combination? How many ways can 4 people be seated in 4 seats?
What is permutation?
There is a 28% chance that it rains tomorrow. What is the complement of this event and what does it mean?
There is a 72% chance that it doesn't rain.
An experiment consists of pushing the random button on an playlist and seeing what artists come up. The following results occurred: Taylor Swift - 7, Bruno Mars - 4, Beyonce - 6, and Drake - 8. This is the experimental probability of the next artist being Selena Gomez.
What is 0/25 or impossible?
This is the theoretical probability of picking a red marble out of a bag with 3 green, 5 blue, 2 red, and 6 yellow marbles.
What is 1/8 or 12.5%?
A soccer team has 8 boys and 12 girls on it. Every day the coach randomly picks a captain. This is the probability that the captain will be a girl 2 days in a row.
What is 144/400 -> 9/25 or 36%?
Luisa is choosing a line-up of acts for the talent show. 12 groups have auditioned, but only 5 can be picked. This is how many ways there are for Luisa to arrange the line-up.
What is 95,040?
This is 8!
What is 40320?
Mr. Smith checks the math homework that was turned in and finds that 3 papers out of 50 don't have names on them. If he checks 300 papers, this is how many he should have with out names on them based on experimental probability.
What is 18?
The probability of winning a raffle is 1/50. What are the odds of winning the raffle?
What is 1:49?
Mrs. Johnson is giving out stickers to her class. She has 9 zoo animal stickers and 6 scratch 'n sniff stickers. This is the probability that the first two kids both get scratch 'n sniff stickers.
What is 30/210 -> 1/7 or 14%?
Gavin is shopping for school clothes with his father. After trying on several shirts, Gavin has found 8 shirts that he likes, but he can only pick 5 of them. This is how many ways he can choose 5 shirts from the 8 that he likes.
What is 56?
This is the probability that two dice rolled will have a sum of 2 OR 12.
What is 2/36 -> 1/18?