An activity in which results are observed.
What is an experiment?
A number cube was rolled 150 times. It landed on 2 21 times. What is the experimental probability of landing on a 2?
What is 21/150 (.14)?
Each observation in an experiment.
What is a trial?
In an experiment involving a coin and fair die, the probability of landing on tails and an even number.
What is 1/4 (0.25)?
The result of a trial.
What is an outcome?
Playing Monopoly with two dice, you will "go to jail" if you roll a doubles or total of three on your next roll. The probability that you will go to jail on your next roll.
What is 8/36, 2/9, .222?
The set of all possible outcomes in an experiment.
What is the sample space.
Give the sample space for 2 dice being rolled.
What is (36 outcomes listed)?
The probability of zero means that the event is __________.
What is impossible?
Andrew has a bag with an equal number of yellow and orange jelly beans. He draws a tree diagram to show the sample space if he randomly pulls 22 jelly beans out of the bag at the same time.
What is the probability that Andrew selects one orange and one yellow jelly bean out of the bag?
1/2