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 .667 or 67%
Dylan brought a bag of skittles to school. She eats all the red and green skittles. There are 10 purple, 8 yellow, and 2 orange skittles left. Her friend picks a skittle at random, what's the probability it is yellow?
8/20 earns PARTIAL points (100)
2/5 earns FULL points (200)
A twelve-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%)