Probability Vocabulary
Experimental/
Theoretical Vocabulary
Fundamental Counting Principle
Experimental/
Theoretical
Dependent/
Independent events
100
The result of an experiment
What is an outcome?
100
All outcomes have an equal chance of occuring
What is equally likely?
100
The possibility of one event multiplied by the possibility of the next event
What is Fundamental counting principle
100
Mark flipped a coin ten times and landed tails 6 out of 10 times. He decided to flip the coin 40 times to obtain the probability of landing tails.
What is 3/5
100
one event does not affect the other
What is Independent event?
200
An observation of an experiment
What is a trial?
200
A coin, cube or other object in which all outcomes are equally likely
What is fair?
200
Shows all of the possible outcomes
What is Tree Diagram?
200
Jake stated the probability of landing an even number on a cube.
What is 1/2
200
one event affects the outcome of another event
What is Dependent Event?
300
A test in which results are observed
What is an experiment?
300
Obtained by the number of times an event occurs divided by total number of trials
What is experimental probability?
300
Total number of possibilities if you have 4 pants, 6 shirts and 3 hats to choose from
What is 72 possibilities
300
The result of an experiment in which rolling a cube 6 times resulted on rolling a 1 twice
What is experimental probability of 1/3
300
Rolling a number cube three times and landing on 6 all three times
What is an independent event
400
Having a set one or more outcomes
What is an event?
400
Ratio of the number of ways the event can occur over the total number of likely possibilities
What is Theoretical Probability
400
Total possibilities of sandwich if you have three types of meat, two types of cheese and 4 types of bread
What is 24 possible sandwiches?
400
The result of landing tails on a coin and odd number on a cube
What is 1/4
400
If you pull a marble out of a bag and don't put it back, then you draw another marble out of the bag.
What is a Dependent Event?
500
Likelyhood of an event happening
What is probability?
500
All possible outcomes of an experiment
What is sample space?
500
If you are given a choice of teachers, and your grade level has two choices for each subject. You write down all possible combination of teachers you'd like to have.
What is 32?
500
result of landing heads on two coins and rolling a 1 or 6 on a number cube.
What is 1/12
500
Probability of rolling a two on a cube and then rolling a 5 on the same cube.
What is 1/36 chances?
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