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Basic Probability
Probability
Mixed Bag
100
Any outcome of a chance process is a number between 0 and 1 that describes the proportion of times the outcome would occur in a very long series of repetitions.
What is Probability?
100
Two events A and B are ____ ____ if they have no outcomes in common and so can never occur together.
What is Mutually Exclusive?
100

If i toss a fair coin five times and the outcomes are TTTTT, then the probability that tails will occur on the next toss is...

What is .5?

100

Event A occurs with the probability .8. The conditional probability that the event occurs, given that A occurs, is .5. The probability that both A and B occur is...

What is .4

100

The movie we saw clips from before thanksgiving.

What is the titanic?

200
The imitation of chance behavior, based on a model that accurately reflects the situation.
What is Simulation?
200
Can be used to display the sample space for a chance process.
What is a two-way table or a Venn Diagram?
200

The probability that you will win a prize in a carnival game is about 1/7. During the last nine attempts, you have failed to win. Assuming the outcomes are independent from game to game, the probability that you will win is...

What is 1/7?

200

Event A has a probability .4. Event B has the probability .5. If A and B are disjoint (Mutually Exclusive). What is the probability that both events occur.

what is 0?

200

Event A has a probability .4. Event B has the probability .5. If A and B are disjoint (Mutually Exclusive). What is the probability that either events occur.

What is .9?

300
The proportion of times that a particular outcome occurs in many repetitions will approach a single number.
What is The Law of Large Numbers?
300

The probability that one event happens given that another event is already known to have happened.

What is Conditional Probability?

300

You draw two candies at random from a bag that has 20 red, 10 green, 15 orange, 5 blue candies without replacement. What is the probability that both candies are red?

what is .1551?

300

At Lakeville South High School, 60% of students have high speed internet access, 30% have a cell phone, and 20% have both. The proportion of students that have neither high-speed internet access nor a cell phone is...

30%

300

Where did Ms. Lucius teach before Dodgeland?

What is Hartford?

400
A description of some chance process that consists of two parts: a sample space S and a probability for each outcome.
What is a Probability Model?
400
Two events A and B are ____ if the occurrence of one event does not change the probability that the other event will happen.
What is independent?
400

An event A will occur with the probability 0.5. An event B will occur with probability 0.4. The probability that both A and B will occur is 0.2. The conditional probability of A, is given B.

what is .5?

400

People who have 0-negative blood are universal donors. Only 7.2% of the american population has O-negative blood. If 10 people appear at random to give blood, what is the probability that at least 1 of them is a universal donor?

What is .526?

400

Ms. Lucius's favorite food

What is cheese?

500
Any collection of outcomes from some chance process.
What is an event?
500
Another name for mutually exclusive?
What is Disjoint?
500

A die is rigged so that the number 6 comes up 3 times as often as any other number. What is the probability of rolling a 4, 5, or 6?

What is 5/8?

500

An event A will occur with the probability 0.5. An event B will occur with probability 0.4. The probability that both A and B will occur is 0.2. is Event A and B Independent, Mutually exclusive, both or neither?

What is independent?

500

Ms. Lucius's favorite color

What is olive green.

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