Probability with a Deck of Cards
Probability with Dice
Probability Vocabulary
Probability with Historical Data
Theoretical vs.
Experimental
Probability Potluck
100

Probability of drawing a 2 (as a percent)


19%

100

the probability of rolling a 2  (give answer as a fraction)

1/6

100

the ratio of the number of ways an event can occur to the total number of equally likely outcomes

Theoretical Probability

100
How many degrees are in a quadrilateral?

360

100

Mr. Barker found the probability of drawing a spade to be 1/5 or 20%. Did he find the theoretical or experimental probability? 

Experimental Probability

100

Given a 4 color spinner with equal parts (red, blue, yellow, green) what is the probability of spinning red?

1/4 or 25%

200

Probability of drawing the Queen of Hearts?

1/52


200

Probability of an even number or a 1

(give as a percent)

67%

200

Events that have no influence on each other

Independent

200

Is the following categorical or numerical?

- Favourite pizza toppings. 

categorical

200

Probability of flipping heads twice in a row (as a fraction)

1/4


200

You have a bag of marbles, four red and five green. What is the probability of choosing red?

(4/9) or 44%

300

What are the 3 main types of triangle? 

  • Scalene.
  • Isosceles.
  • Equilateral.
300

Probability of rolling an 8 on a single 6-sided die?

0 - impossible

300

The ratio of actual outcomes to the total number of possible outcomes in repeated trials

Experimental Probability

300

Is the following categorical or numerical?

Number of red cars on the Bruce highway per day. 

numerical

300

What is the theoretical probability of landing on green or blue? 

1/2 or 50%

300

Given a 4 color spinner with equal parts (red, blue, yellow, green), the probability of spinning red then blue  (as a fraction)

1/16 


400

How many degrees are in a triangle?

180

400

probability of rolling a 5, then a 2 (as a fraction)

1/36

400

What is the range of the following dataset? 

1, 9, 16, 19, 20, 1, 4, 20, 13, 16, 8, 9, 12, 19, 20

19

400

At a bingo game the numbers that can be called are between 1 and 60.

What is the probability that 8 is called?

1/60

400

What is the experimental probability of landing on green or blue? 

3/8 or 38%

400

the theoretical probability of rolling a one THEN picking a red card out of a deck of cards


 1/12 or 8%


1/6 * 1/2 (half of cards are red so 1/2)

500

the probability of flipping a coin to heads, then rolling a 3 on a die (as a fraction)

1/12

500

the probability of rolling a six or five on a 6-sided die. 

2/6 = 1/2

500

What is the mode of the following dataset? 

1, 9, 16, 19, 20, 1, 4, 20, 13, 16, 8, 9, 12, 19, 20

20

500

At a bingo game the numbers that can be called are between 1 and 60.

What is the probability that 8, 6, 30 or 40 is called?

4/60 = 1/15

500

What is the theoretical probability of not landing on green? 

3/4 or 75%

500

What is the theoretical probability of picking a purple marble?

2/11 or 18%

600

If two angles in a triangle are 42 and 75 degrees, what is the missing angle? 


63 degrees

600

What is the mean of the following dataset? 

1, 9, 16, 19, 20, 1, 4, 20, 13, 16, 8, 9, 12, 19, 20

12.46

600

After repeated trials the experimental probability should get _________ to the theoretical probability 

closer

600

At a bingo game the numbers that can be called are between 1 and 60.

What is the probability that a number less than 15 is called?

=14/60 = 7/30

600

What is the experimental probability of not landing on green? 

17/20 or 85%

600

What is the probability of landing on a green, then pulling a red marble, then spinning not orange? 

15/176 or 9%

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