Definitions
Theoretical Probability
One Word Scale
Experimental Probability
Counting Principle
100
It is the probability of what should occur in the future.
What is theoretical probability?
100
A letter tile is randomly selected from a bag, recorded, and replaced 100 times. The results are listed below. This is the experimental probability of selecting the letter "E" if there are the following # of tiles: A = 16 E = 11 I = 29 O = 19 U = 25 (Give answer in fraction, percentage and decimal)
What is 11/100 and 11%, and .11?
100
The word(s) describing the probability when a coin is flipped and it lands on tails?
What is as likely as not?
100
The probability Mrs. Fontaine will pick a boy to read his essay if there are 25 students in her class and 17 of those are boys in fraction, decimal, and percentage form.
What is 17/25, .68, and 68%?
100
You are trying to decide what to wear to school. You know you have a pair of blue jeans, a red pair of shorts, and a black pair of sweat pants. You also have a basketball jersey, an orange plaid shirt, and Tom Brady's Super Bowl jersey. This is the number of different outfit combinations can you make.
What is 9?
200
It is the type of probability of an event found by comparing the number of times the event occurs to the total number of trials.
What is experimental probability?
200
Mr. Williams made 8 out of 10 free throws in his last basketball game. This is the number of free throws he will make if he shoots 45 free throws.
What is 36?
200
The word(s) to describe the probability Mr. Samuelson will win the next Aitkin County Tractor Pull if he has finished 1st place 8 of the last 11 years.
What is most likely?
200
If Mr. Long hits the archery target 4 out of 14 times, this is the fraction, decimal, and percent he will hit the target on his next try.
What is 2/7, .29, and 29%?
200
This is the number of possible outcomes for spinning one spinner with 8 equal sections and another spinner with 6 equal sections.
What is 48?
300
The percent associated with the following probability words when the occurrence of events are 1. certain, 2. likely, 3. as likely as not, 4. unlikely, or 5. impossible.
What is: 1. 100% 2. 75% (range of 99% to 51%) 3. 50% 4. 25% (range of 49% to 1% 5. 0%
300
Mr. Sniffles missed 6% of the work days in the first quarter of school. This is the predicted number of exact days Mr. Sniffles will miss in a 175 day school year.
What is 10.5?
300
The word(s) to describe the probability it won't actually, not metaphorically, rain cats and dogs this evening.
What is certain?
300
Mr. Smith likes Dr. Pepper 7 out of 10 times he drinks soda. Mr. Smith just bowled 6 strikes in ten frames of bowling. This is the experimental probability Mr. Smith will bowl a strike in his very next frame in fraction, decimal, and percentage form.
What is 3/5, .6, and 60%?
300
The number of vehicle combinations Mr. Statz has when purchasing a new truck if he is deciding between a Chevy, Ford, or Dodge. He also has his favorite colors to chose from: Pink, Purple, Hunter Green, and Black.
What is 12?
400
This is a set of one or more outcomes.
What is an event?
400
Mr. Peterson made 19 of 20 field goals from 35 yards out. This is the number of field goals Mr. Peterson won't make if he kicks 60 field goals from 35 yards out.
What is 3?
400
The word(s) used to describe the probability of having an outcome of two heads flipped if you flip a quarter and roll a fair number cube.
What is impossible?
400
The person who is more likely to get the next penalty in a hockey game if Mr. Goon had 8 penalties in the last 9 games and Mr. Cheater had 33 penalties in the last 38 games.
Who is Mr. Goon?
400
Ms. Fremling is packing for a trip. She packs a white blouse, a pink blouse, a blue blouse, and a green blouse. She also packs a black suit, a navy blue suit, and a gray suit. This is the probability that the first outfit she wears is the gray suit with a pink blouse?
What is 1 out of 12?
500
All the possible outcomes of an experiment make this up.
What is sample space?
500
The predicted amount of money Mrs. Courtemanche will spend on Starbucks coffee in a year if Mrs. Courtemanche spent $32.21 in coffee in the last 18 days.
What is $653.15
500
The word(s) used to describe the probability a number cube lands on 2 and a coin lands on heads on a Friday?
What is unlikely?
500
If a Math Chapter test has been given 13 of the last 65 weeks, this is the probability in decimal and percentage form there will not be a test next week.
What is .8 or 80%?
500
This is the probability you will roll a Yahtzee (5 of a kind) using 5 "fair number cubes" in one roll.
What is 1 out of 7,776?
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