A) Vocabulary
the list of all possible outcomes
What is the sample space?
A cup has sticks numbered 1 through 13. What is the probability of an odd number?
What is 7/13?
What is experimental probability?
What is the outcome when an experiment is completed.
the result of an event
What is the outcome?
A spinner has 6 equal sections, red, blue, yellow, green, orange, and pink. What is the probability that the spinner will land on yellow?
What is 1/6?
A boy tosses a coin and gets heads 7 times out of 20. Is this theoretical or experimental?
What is experimental?
what is expected/ predicted to happen in a probability question.
What is theoretical probability?
A spinner has 10 equal sections, 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9, and 10. If the spinner is spun, what is the probabilty of spinning a number less than 7?
What is 6/10 or 3/5?
The probability of drawing a face card from a standard deck of cards is 3/13. Is this theoretical or experimental probability?
What is theoretical?
A drawer contains 20 socks: 8 blue, 4 green, 6 black, and 2 white. What is the probability of picking out a blue sock?
What is 8/20 or 2/5?
A heart is randomly chosen from a deck of cards 7 out of 12 times. What is the experimental probability?
What is 7/12?
A class has 20 boys and 12 girls. What is the percent chance that the teacher will choose a girl to answer a question?
What is 12/32 = 37.5%?
A heart is randomly chosen from a deck of cards 7 out of 12 times. What is the theoretical probability?
What is 1/4?