Theoretical and Experimantal Probability
The Counting Principal
Independent and Dependent Events
Permutations and Combinations
Probability Vocabulary
100
The probability of rolling an even number.
What is 1/2?
100
The number of outcomes possible when tossing a penny, a nickel, a dime and a quarter.
What is 16 outcomes?
100
Choosing a card from a ht and then choosing a second card with out replacing the first one. (Indepedent or Dependent)
What is dependent?
100
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What is 720?
100
The set of all possible outcomes for and experiment is called this.
What is a sample space?
200
What is the probability of rolling a factor of 20?
What is 2/3?
200
The number of outcomes when choosing one dinner entree from 3 choices, one salad from 3 choices and one dessert from 3 choices.
What is 27 outcomes?
200
Selecting a name from a Mesa phone book and selecting a name from the Tucson phone book. (Independent or Dependent)
What is independent?
200
The number of ways we can get 1st, 2nd, & 3rd place out of 11 runners.
What is 990?
200
The Counting Principle counts the number of possible outcomes using this operation.
What is multiplication?
300
What is the probablity I will have a girl in September?
What is 1/2?
300
The number of outcomes when choosing a 3-digit PIN if the numbers can be repeated.
What is 1,000 outcomes?
300
A coin is tossed and a number cube is rolled. The probability of getting heads and a multiple of 2 is this.
What is 1/4?
300
The number of ways a president, treasurer, and a secretary can be choosen from 9 candidates.
What is 504?
300
The ratio of the number of times an event occurs to the number of trials done is called this.
What is experimental probability?
400
What is the probability of rolling a factor of 30?
What is 5/6?
400
The number of combinations when choosing a 3-digit PIN if the numbers can NOT be repeated.
What is 720?
400
A wallet contains 5 $5 bills, 3 $10 bills and 2 $20 bills. Two bills are selected without replacing the first. P($10, $10)
What is 1/15?
400
The number of COMBINATIONS for 4-topping pizzas when there are 6 toppings to choose from.
What is 15?
400
When the outcome of one event influences the outcome of a second event, the events are called this.
What are dependent events?
500
The probability of pulling a heart out of a regular deck of cards.
What is 1/4?
500
The number of outcomes when choosing a car from five different exterior colors, four different interior colors, and automatic or standard tranmission.
What is 40 outcomes?
500
You roll two number cubes. P(multiple of 2, multiple of 3)
What is 1/6?
500
The number of COMBINATIONS made when displaying 3 wooden carvings from a collection of 10 carvings.
What is 120?
500
This is an arrangement of objects in which order is important.
What is a permutation?
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