Theoretical Probability
Miscellaneous Questions
Experimental/Theoretical
100
What is theoretical probability?
 What is Theoretical probability is the probability of something based on reasoning.
100
What is the definition of probability.
What is the likelihood of something happening.
100
Are experimental and theoretical probability the same thing?
What is no.
200
What is the theoretical probability of rolling a 6 on a six sided die?
What is 1/6 or 16.67%
200
What would be the theoretical probability of getting a ace of diamonds in a deck of cards?
What is 1/52.
200
You spin a spinner 100 times and you get 30/100 reds, 15/100 greens, and 55/100 purples. What would be the probability (in percentages) of getting each of these? Also what type of probability is this problem displaying? 
30/100=30%, 15/100= 15%, 55/100= 55%.

The type of probability is experimental probability.

300
What would be the theoretical probability of rolling a 1 or 3 on a 6 sided die? 
 What is 2/6 or 33.33%
300
You draw 28 cards blindly from a shuffled up deck of cards. Based on your knowledge of theoretical probability, about how many of each suit of cards do you expect to have.
What is about 7 of each suit.
300
What is the theoretical probability of drawing a jack of diamonds from a deck of cards and then drawing another jack of diamonds from the same deck?
What is 0.
400
What would be the theoretical probability of rolling a combined total of 3 with 2 six-sided die?
What is 1/12 or 8.333%
400
What would be the theoretical probability of rolling 3 of the same numbers in a row on 1 die.
What is 1/216
400
You are spinning a spinner 100 times. The spinner is divided into three colors that all are 1/3 of the spinner; red, yellow, and orange. 

The following are probabilities for this spinner.

33.33% of the time it lands on red.                            31.33% of the time it lands on red.

Which probability is the theoretical probability and which one is the experimental probability?

What is, 33.33% is theoretical, and 31.33% is experimental.
500
What would be the theoretical probability of drawing 4 hearts in a row from a deck of cards.
What is 1/256 or .39%.
500

Name a third type of probability that is the ratio of the number of outcomes in which a specified event occurs to the total number of trials.

What is Empirical Probability.
500
What would be the theoretical probability of rolling a 6 on a number die, and then flipping a heads on a coin and then drawing a jack of spades from a deck of cards?
What is 1/624.
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