The classic wood carousel at Carousel Park in Hampton, VA has 32 jumping horses and 16 standing horses. What is the probability of randomly selecting a jumping horse?
2/3 or 66.6%
You have twelve blue marbles, 6 red marbles, and 2 yellow marbles in a jar. With replacement, what is P(red then blue).
9/50 or 18%.
Describe the difference between events that are certain, likely, equally likely, unlikely, or never going to happen.
Certain would be 100% of the time, likely is anything greater than 50% of the time, equally likely is exactly 50% of the time, unlikely is anything less than 50% of the time, and never is anything that has a 0% chance of occuring.
You have a normal deck of cards. What is the probability of drawing a heart, not replacing it, then drawing a spade?
13/204
Jarvonya spins a spinner with 5 equal sections numbered 1-5 and she spins another spinner with 5 equal sections with the letters A-E. What is the probability she will spin a 4 and a B?
1/25 or 0.04, or 4%
A six-sided die is thrown 50 times. Using the list below, how does the theoretical probability of rolling a 3 compare to the experimental probability of rolling a 3? Number on Die How Many Times it Landed on that Number 1 8 2 6 3 7 4 12 5 10 6 7
The theoretical probability is higher than the experimental probability. (Theoretical = 17%, Experimental = 14%)