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What is a possible result?
An outcome
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What is a prediction?
a reasonable guess about the possible outcome of a probability experiment.
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A bag contains 3 red pieces of candy, 4 blue, and 5 green. What is the theoretical probability of getting a green piece of candy?
5/12
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If you pulled 12 gumballs out of the machine and 5 of them were blue. What was your experimental probability for blue?
5/12
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Listed below are camp activities: Morning: Afternoon: Canoeing Arts and crafts Woodworking Swimming Basketball Soccer Ropes Course Fishing How many possible outcomes are there?
16
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What is a set of one or more outcomes?
An event
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I pulled 10 gumballs out of the machine. I got red 6 times. What is the prediction of red gumballs if I pulled 20 gumballs out?
12
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A bag contains 3 red pieces of candy, 4 blue, and 5 green. What is the theoretical probability of getting a green or red piece of candy?
8/12 or 2/3
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If you pulled 12 gumballs out of the machine and 5 of them were blue, and 2 of them were red. What was your experimental probability for red?
2/12 or 1/6
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Listed below are camp activities: Morning: Afternoon: Canoeing Arts and crafts Woodworking Swimming Basketball Soccer Ropes Course Fishing How many possible outcomes are there if swimming was cancelled?
12
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If something has a 50% chance of occurring is it likely, unlikely, certain, or impossible?
Likely
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If a baseball is thrown 20 times and you hit it 6 times, What prediction could you make if the baseball was thrown 60 times?
You would hit the ball 18 times
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A bag contains 3 red pieces of candy, 4 blue, and 5 green. What is the theoretical probability of getting a green, red, or yellow piece of candy?
8/12 or 2/3
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If you pulled 12 gumballs out of the machine and 5 of them were blue and 3 of them were red. What was your experimental probability for blue and red?
8/12 or 2/3
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If you had a 7/28 chance of something would you have a likely, unlikely, certain or impossible chance?
unlikely
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What is the definition of theoretical probability?
the number of favorable outcomes ____________________________ the number of possible outcomes
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Ben Rothlesburger throws 36 passes in the first game of the season. He only completed 27 of them. Make a prediction of how many completed passes he would have if he threw 180 passes?
135
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A bag contains 3 red pieces of candy, 4 blue, and 5 green. What is the theoretical probability of not getting a green or red piece of candy?
4/12 or 1/3
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The gumball machine contains 35 gumballs. 5 of the gumballs are red. Ally did an experiment and pulled a gumball from the machine 40 times. She pulled a red gumball out 10 times. What is the experimental probability that Ally would get a red gumball?
10/40 or 1/4
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If you had a 27/36 chance of something would you have an unlikely, likely, certain or impossible chance. And what is this fraction in simplest form?
likely and 3/4
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What is the definition of experimental probability?
the number of times and event occurs _______________________________ the total number of trials
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Mary-Kate spins her fair four-colored spinner 700 times. She lands on blue 58 times. If she spun her spinner 2,100 times, how many times can she expect to land on blue?
174
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The gumball machine contains 35 gumballs. 5 of the gumballs are red. Ally did an experiment and pulled a gumball from the machine 40 times. She pulled a red gumball out 10 times. What is the theoretical probability that Ally would get a red gumball?
5/35 or 1/7
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The gumball machine contains 35 gumballs. 5 of the gumballs are red, 7 are blue, and 2 are green. Ally did an experiment and pulled a gumball from the machine 40 times. She pulled a red gumball out 13 times. What is the experimental probability that Ally would get a red gumball?
13/40
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Listed below are camp activities: Morning: Afternoon: Evening: Canoeing Arts and crafts Tennis Woodworking Swimming Dance Basketball Soccer Volleyball Ropes Course Fishing Boating How many possible outcomes are there and explain how you found your answer.
64. The answer is found by multiplying the number of activities in each column together.
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