Deck of Cards
The total number of cards in a deck.
What is 52 cards?
The probability of rolling a four on a number cube.
State theoretical or experimental probability.
What is ?
1 out of 6 or 1/6
approx. 17% or 0.17
Theoretical Probability
A spinner has eight slices one blue, one red, two yellow, three green, and one purple. The probability of landing on green in words.
What is 3 out of 8 ?
In a bag of marbles, there are 14 swirled, 20 solid colored, and 16 polka dot marbles. The probability that you would grab a swirled marble written as a simplified fraction.
State theoretical or experimental probability.
What is 7/25?
Theoretical probability.
A coin if flipped and the results of heads or tails is recorded. The probability that the coin will land on heads.
State theoretical or experimental probability.
What is ?
1/2, one half, one out of two,
50%, 0.5
Theoretical probability.
The probability of choosing a heart from a full deck.
State theoretical or experimental probability.
What is ?
1 out of 4 or 1/4
25% or 0.25
Theoretical Probability
The probability of rolling a multiple of 2.
State theoretical or experimental probability.
What is ?
1/3 or 1 out of 3
33% or 0.33
Theoretical Probability
A spinner has eight slices one blue, one red, two yellow, three green, and one purple. The probability of landing on yellow as a fraction.
What is 1/4?
Sam has a bag of 25 marbles and asks Logan to do an experiment to see if he can guess the colors of all the marbles. Logan is allowed to pull out one marble at a time, record the color and then replace the marble. He records 16 colors as follows: 4 green, 3 yellow, 7 white and 2 red. The probability that Logan will pull out a red on his next try.
State theoretical or experimental probability.
What is ?
2 out of 25
2/25
0.08 or 8%
Experimental probability.
In a room of 30 students, there are 12 students with undeclared majors. The probability of randomly picking a student from the class list who has declared their major. Write as a fraction.
State theoretical or experimental probability.
What is 3/5?
Theoretical probability.
The probability of drawing a Queen from a deck of cards.
State theoretical or experimental probability.
What is ?
1 out of 13 or 1/13
approximately 7.7% or 0.077
Theoretical Probability
The probability that the number rolled will be greater than 3.
State theoretical or experimental probability.
What is ?
50% or 0.5
1 out of 2 or 1/2
Theoretical Probability
A spinner has eight slices one blue, one red, two yellow, three green, and one purple. The probability of landing on red as a percent.
What is 12.5% ?
Sam has a bag of 25 marbles and asks Logan to do an experiment to see if he can guess the colors of all the marbles. Logan is allowed to pull out one marble at a time, record the color and then replace the marble. He records 16 colors as follows: 4 green, 3 yellow, 7 white and 2 red. The probability that Logan will pull out a black on his next try.
State theoretical or experimental probability.
What is ?
zero, 0, 0% or 0/16
Experimental probability.
In the fruit salad, there are five different kids of fruit. Forty percent are bananas. 10% are strawberries. Five percent are kiwi. Twenty percent are grapes. 25% are pineapple. The probability in percent of eating a grape.
What is 20%?
Sally does an experiment and draws one card from 20 random cards placed face down. She records the card's face value, replaces the card and mixes the cards. She does this 10 times and chooses a heart card 4 times.
Her probability of choosing a heart on the next draw.
State theoretical or experimental probability.
What is ?
2 out of 5 or 2/5
40% or 0.4
Experimental Probability
The probability that the number rolled will be seven.
State theoretical or experimental probability.
What is
0 or zero
0% or 0/6
0 out of 6
This could be experimental or theoretical probability.
A spinner has eight slices one blue, one red, two yellow, three green, and one purple. The percent probability of the spinner landing on yellow or green.
What is 62.5% ?
In a bag of marbles, there are 14 swirled, 20 solid colored, and 16 polka dot marbles. The probability of grabbing a solid colored marble. Write as a decimal.
State theoretical or experimental probability.
What is 0.4?
Theoretical probability.
In a package of colored pens, there were three blue, two pink, three purple, and the rest were green. There were twelve total pens in the package. What is the probability of getting a green pen? Write as a fraction.
1/3
The probability of not drawing a number four card from a deck of cards.
State theoretical or experimental probability.
What is ?
12 out of 13 or 12/13
approx. 92% or 0.92
Theoretical Probability
The probability that the number rolled would be less than or equal to 5.
State theoretical or experimental probability.
What is
5/6 or 5 out of 6
83% or 0.83
Theoretical Probability
A spinner has eight slices one blue, one red, two yellow, three green, and one purple. The probability as a fraction of not landing on blue or red.
What is 3/4 ?
In a bag of marbles, there are 14 swirled, 20 solid colored, and 16 polka dot marbles. The probability of grabbing a solid colored, polka dot, or swirled marble. Write as a fraction.
State theoretical or experimental probability.
50/50 = 1
Theoretical probability.
What is the probability of getting heads on a coin? Write as a fraction, decimal, and percent.
1/2 = 50% = 0.5