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Probability Scale
Theoretical Probability
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Experimental Probability
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The likelihood or chance of some event happening.
What is Probability?
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What was the event that was held on Tuesday, 27 August, in Week 7?
What is Sports Carnival?
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Using the Probability Scale below, state the chances that the day after Monday will be a Tuesday.
What is Certain?
50
If a fair die is rolled, state the probability as a fraction that the number 2 is rolled.
What is
1/6?
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What do we call this?
What is Venn diagram?
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A spinner is spun 10 times and the colour shown is recorded:
blue, blue, green, red, blue, green, blue, red, blue, blue
How many times was green shown?
What is 2?
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Two words to describe when the chances of something happening is at 50%.
What is Even Chance?
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The names of the four factions which will be replaced in 2025.
What is Apollo, Zeus, Atlas and Poseidon?
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Using the Probability Scale below, state the chances of throwing a coin and it landing on Tails.
What is fifty-fifty or 0.5?
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If a fair die is rolled, state the probability as a simplified fraction that an even number is rolled.
What is
1/2?
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A class of Year 8 students were asked about their favourite colours.
How many students liked both green and purple?
What is
3?
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A spinner is spun 10 times and the colour shown is recorded:
blue, blue, green, red, blue, green, blue, red, blue, blue
What is the experimental probability of green being spun? Write your answer as a fraction.
What is 2/10 or 1/5? ?
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The word to describe when there is no chance of something happening.
What is Impossible?
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What is the faction that Ms Evans belongs to?
What is Ask Ms Evans?
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The following events are shown with their probabilities:
Event A: 0
Event B: 0.9
Event C: 1
Event D: 0.5
Which is more likely to happen - Event B or Event D?
What is Event B?
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If a fair die is rolled, state the probability as a fraction that a number less than 5 is rolled?
What is 4/6 or 2/3?
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A group of Y8 students were asked about their favourite colours.
How many students like either green or purple or both?
What is
18?
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A coin is tossed 10 times and the result shown is recorded below:
Head, Tail, Tail, Head, Head, Tail, Head, Tail, Head, Head
What is the experimental probability of head appearing? Write your answer as a decimal.
What is 0.6?
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The word to describe when an event is definitely going to happen.
What is Certain?
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Name the two new students in our class.
Who is Sam & Crystal?
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The spinner is spun and could land with the pointer on any of the four sections. Answer True or False.
Red and Blue are equally likely outcomes.
What is True?
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If a fair die is rolled, state the probability as a percentage that the number 8 is rolled.
What is 0%?
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A group of Y8 students were asked about their favourite colours.
How many students did not like either green or purple?
What is
4?
200
A coin is tossed 50 times and the results are shown in the table below:
What is the experimental probability of getting a head? State your answer as a decimal.
What is 0.54?
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The name given to describe a possible result of a probability experiment.
What is Outcome?
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Who was the student showing his red coloured pom poms to Ms Ramalingam?
Who is Nikora?
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What are the possible outcomes of choosing a letter from the word MATHS?
What is M, A, T, H and S?
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The letters of the word PIANO are written on 5 cards and then one card is drawn from a hat at random.
Determine the Pr(the letter A is chosen), writing your answer as fraction.
What is
250
A group of Y8 students were asked about their favourite colours.
How many students were surveyed?
What is
22?
250
A coin is tossed 50 times and the results are shown in the table below:
Using your answer for calculating the experimental probability of getting a head, calculate the expected number of heads you would get if you tossed this coin 700 times? State your answer as a decimal.
What is 378 (0.54 x 700)?
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The name given to describe the list of all possible outcomes.
What is Sample Space?
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Who is the student who plays drums in this class?
Who is Rhys?
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State the three different ways of calculating probabilities.
What is fractions, decimals and percentages?
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A fair die is rolled.
State the probability that a 5 is not rolled, writing your answer as fraction.
What is 5/6?
300
A class of Y8 students were asked about their favorite hobbies.
6 students liked both horse riding and sailing.
8 students liked sailing but didn't like horse riding.
Complete the Venn diagram below and determine how many students were in that class.
What is 30 students (12+6+8+4=30)?
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Using theoretical probability, calculate the expected number of heads you would get if you tossed a coin 700 times?
What is 350?