Basic Terms
What is the probability of flipping a coin and it landing on heads?
What is 1/2?
What do we call the outcome of a single trial in probability?
What is an event?
How do you calculate the probability of an event?
What is the number of favorable outcomes divided by the total number of possible outcomes?
Give an example of how probability is used in weather forecasting.
What is predicting the chance of rain?
Define "probability."
What is the likelihood of an event occurring, expressed as a number between 0 and 1?
If you roll a die, what is the probability of rolling a 4?
What is 1/6?
A bag contains 3 red, 5 blue, and 2 green marbles. What is the probability of drawing a blue marble?
What is 5/10 or 1/2?
How do sports teams use probability?
What is analyzing chances of winning or losing games?
What does it mean if an event has a probability of 0?
What is the event is impossible?
What is the difference between independent and dependent events?
What are independent events do not affect each other, while dependent events do?
What is the probability of rolling an even number on a six-sided die?
What is 3/6 or 1/2?
How might a store use probability in sales?
What is predicting how many customers will buy a certain item?
If you have a bag of 10 marbles (4 red, 3 blue, 3 green), what is the probability of drawing a red marble and then a blue marble without replacement?
What is 4/10×3/9=12/90 or 2/15?
What does it mean if an event has a probability of 1?
What is the event is certain to happen?
If you draw a card from a standard deck, what is the probability of it being a heart?
What is 13/52 or 1/4?
If you flip a coin three times, what is the probability of getting at least one tails?
What is 1−1/8 or 7/8?
How is probability used in games of chance, like dice?
What is determining the odds of winning or losing?
What is the probability of getting a sum of 7 when rolling two six-sided dice?
What is 6/36 or 1/6?
How can probability be expressed?
What is as a fraction, decimal, or percentage?
If two coins are flipped, what is the probability that both will land on heads?
What is 1/4?
1/2 x 1/2 = 1/4
If a spinner has 8 equal sections numbered 1 through 8, what is the probability of landing on a number greater than 5?
What is 3/8?
Why is it important for insurance companies to understand probability?
What is to assess risks and set premiums?
Describe the Law of Large Numbers in probability.
What is the principle that as the number of trials increases, the experimental probability will get closer to the theoretical probability?