Theoretical vs.
Experimental
Experimental
Probability Potluck
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 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 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
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
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
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%