What is the theoretical probability of rolling a 2 on a number cube?
1/6
100
Ben has 10 shirts and 5 pairs of pants. How many different outfits can Ben have?
50
100
If there are 5 Mariners, 10 Captains, and 7 Voyagers are selected for a special field trip, what is the experimental probability for having chosen a Captain?
10/22 or 5/11
100
You have a spinner with 4 equal sections of orange, blue, red and black. The probability of spinning any color is 1/4. What kind of probability am I using?
Theoretical
200
Any outcome or group of outcomes
Event
200
What is the theoretical probability of rolling a prime number on a number cube?
1/2
200
How many different combinations are possible from 8 pen colors and 12 different colored notepads?
96
200
I flip a coin 20 times and get heads 14 times and tails 6 times. What is the probability of getting tails?
6/20 or 3/10
200
A coin is tossed 100 times. Fifty-two outcomes are heads. The probability of heads is 52/100 or 13/25. What type of probability is being used?
Experimental
300
You can multiply possible outcomes for different options together to get the total number of outcomes. What is this called?
The fundamental counting principle.
300
What is the theoretical probability of rolling a composite number on a number cube?
1/3
300
How many different cars can you get from 5 models, 3 colors, and 4 different engines?
60
300
The Park Service captures and tags 15 bison. They release them back in the wild. They then catch 24 bison, and only 5 have tags. How many bison can we estimate are in the population?
72
300
A number cube is rolled 60 times. Twelve outcomes are the number 3. What is the experimental probability of rolling a 3?
12/60 better answer... 1/5
400
As your number of trials increases, the experimental probability of each outcome gets closer and closer to the theoretical outcome. What is this called?
The law of large numbers.
400
If you roll a number cube 100 times, about how many times would you expect a number larger than 4?
Around 33
400
There is a school lunch special where you can pay $5 for a sandwich, drink, and a snack. There are 5 different sandwiches, 4 different drinks, and 4 different snacks. How many different lunches are there?
80
400
I roll a number cube and get
1 = 3 times
2 = 7 times
3 = 1 time
4 = 10 times
5 = 8 times
6 = 1 time
What is the experimental probability that I get an even number?
18/30 or 3/5
400
A number cube is rolled 60 times. The results were 1-14 times, 2-6 times, 3-12 times, 4-8 times 5-7 times and 6-13 times. What is the theoretical probability of rolling a 3?
1/6
500
The chance of an event happening as determined by calculating results that would occur under ideal circumstances.
Theoretical Probability
500
What is the theoretical probability of rolling a factor of 6 on a number cube?
2/3
500
Pretend your locker had number from 0-9 on the dial. How many different locker combinations are there with three numbers?
1000
500
I roll a number cube and get
1 = 3 times
2 = 7 times
3 = 1 time
4 = 10 times
5 = 8 times
6 = 1 time
What is the experimental probability that I get a prime number?
16/30 or 8/15
500
Explain the difference between theoretical probability and experimental probability.
Theoretical probability is what SHOULD actually happen, experimental probability is based on the outcomes obtained from an experiment