Percents
Probability
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Vocabulary
Holiday Trivia
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1 in every 4 cards in a card deck is a Spade ♠ or ♤. What is this fraction as a percentage?
Step 1: 1 spade/4 cards = 0.25
Step 2: 0.25 x 100
Answer = 25%
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Which is more likely, a coin flip to land on tails or on heads?
Both are Equally Likely
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Joey spun the spinner 6 times and never got Yellow. He says that the chance of spinning Yellow is 0/6 and therefore impossible.
The chance is still 1 in 6, or 1/6 , and Joey's experiment is just one possibility in the outcome. The chance to spin each time is unaffected by his results of other spins.
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This word represents the ratio out of 100.
Percent
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The name of the Christmas celebration in Italy
Buon Natale
200
1/3 as a percentage?
33 % if rounded, 33.33...% if not rounded
200
there 10 balls in a bag. 5 red, 4blues,1 green. In words, how likely is it to pick a green ball out of the bag?
Not likely / Unlikely
200
Rose says that when she rolls her 5 dice, that the odds all the dice land on 5 at the same time is 1 in 6 or 1/6 because there are 6 numbers on the die.
The odds of one die landing on 5 is 1/6, but the odds of 5 events happening in a row would be 1/6 x 1/6 x 1/6 x 1/6 x 1x6 to solve! These are very different answers.
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This word is a synonym for chance but is not PROBABILITY
Odds
200
The name of the Christmas celebration in France
Joyeux Noel
300
What is the percent chance of picking the only red marble out of a bag of 8 total marbles?
Step 1 1 red/8 total = 0.125
Step 2 0.125 x 100
Answer = 12.5%
300
25 students are playing Jeopardy, and they know all the answers because they study and do all their homework, so classwork feels easy. How likely is it that a student chosen at random knows the answer?
Certain
300
The weather report for Suffolk says it is unlikely to rain today.
A 70% chance of something to happen is more than 50, or equally likely to happen or not, so 70% is Likely to happen.
300
This word represents the numerical possibility of an event out of the total number of different events in a scenario
Fraction... spinning 1 when only one spinner out of 5 is 1...
300
Based on the song, what did "my true love give to me" on the 1st day of Christmas?
A partridge in a pear tree.
400
In the pie chart, what percentage chance does someone have of landing a spinner on Red?
Step 1: 1/2 of the total circle
Step 2: 1/2 = 0.5
Step 3: 0.5 x 100
Answer: = 50%
400
Each of the Hogwarts houses is equally good at Quidditch. If three houses team up against the last house during a match, in words, describe the probability for the 4th house to lose.
Likely - more than 50% chance to lose.
400
Bruce took one card out of the 52 card deck, a Queen of clubs, and placed it in his pocket. He confidently tells his friend Brianna that her chance of picking up a King card will be 4 out of 52, or 4/52 chance.
Since Bruce did not put the card back, Brianna's chance of drawing a King out of the deck is now 4/51, 4 kings/51 total cards. Her odds have just increased since 4/51 > 4/52 !
400
This word describes the probability represented by 0/8
Impossible
400
How many reindeer does Santa have pulling his sleigh?
9!
Dasher, Dancer, Prancer, Vixen, Comet, Cupid, Donner, Blitzen...but do you recall...the most famous reindeer of all? Rudolph the red-nosed reindeer!
500
2 out of Mr. Rau's 12 pet Basilisk snakes are sick. What percentage of the snakes are sick in the Snake Den?
Step 1: 2/12 = 1/6 simplified, or 0.1666.....
Step 2: 0.166... x 100 = 16.6...
Answer: = 16.666 %
500
Mr. Sikes made a jeopardy game that every student at Mack Benn Jr. Elementary enjoys. What are the odds of hearing that a student disliked the Jeopardy review game?
Impossible = 0 % chance!
500
Space Yoda is trying to randomly decide which pizza slice to buy at the cantina. He believes that since there are 5 toppings he has 5 different pizza choices.
There are 10 choices, the tree diagram shows 5 possible pizzas if he chooses plain crust, and the same 5 choices if he picks the sesame crust. 10 total different pizza combos are possible!
500
Mrs. Harris would like to host a "Best Ice Cream Recipe" Contest. She allows 3 students to each make 4 different recipes. What is one way to draw a picture or to visualize the number of ice cream flavors possible?
Tree diagram! The name was in the picture.
500
What is the Grinch's Dog's name?
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