Vocabulary
Permutations
Combinations
Combined Events
Fundamental counting principle
100
This is a probability problem when order matters.
What is a permutation?
100
This is the number of ways can you order the letters in the word MATH.
What is 24?
100
This is the number of ways that 2 goldfish can be selected from 15 goldfish in a tank.
What is 105?
100
This is the probability of rolling a 6 and an odd number.
What is 2/3?
100
This is the number of outcomes when you choose from 3 shirts, 2 pants, and 4 shoes.
What is 16?
200
This is a compound event when each event cannot happen at the same time.
What is disjoint?
200
This is the number of ways that you can choose a president, vice president, and a secretary in a class of 25.
What is 13,800?
200
This is the number of pizza combinations possible with 5 topping options.
What is 10?
200
This is the probability of rolling a 3 on a number cube on the first roll and rolling an odd number on the second roll.
What is 1/12?
200
This is the possible outcomes when you choose from a 4, 6, or 8 cylinder engine, 2 or 4 doors, and 2 wheel, 4 wheel, or all wheel drive.
What is 18?
300
This is a combined event in which the second event does not affect the first event.
What is independent?
300
This is the number of ways 3 students can sit in 4 chairs.
What is 24?
300
This is the number of ways you can choose 5 students from a class of 30.
What is 142,506?
300
This is the probability of drawing 2 red marbles from a bag containing 4 yellow marbles, 6 blue marbles and 5 red marbles when you do not replace the first marble.
What is 2/21?
300
This is what the fundamental counting principle allows us to find.
What is number of possible outcomes?
400
This probability is what actually happens in a probability experiment.
What is experimental probability?
400
This is the possible 4 digit numbers when a digit cannot be repeated.
What is 4,536?
400
This is the number of ways that 7 blocks can be chosen from a bag of 15.
What is 6,435
400
This makes up a combined event.
What is two or more simple events?
400
This is the number of possible outcomes when you toss two coins and roll one number cube.
What is 16?
500
This is probability in which we calculate what we think will happen.
What is theoretical probability?
500
This is the probability that John and Mary will finish first and second in a race of 6 students.
What is 1/30?
500
This is the probability that Jack will be part of the 3 students selected from the class of 28 students.
What is 1/28?
500
This is the amount of students out of 100 you would expect to choose pizza in a survey when the original survey conducted found that 1/4 of students choose pizza.
What is 25 students?
500
This is the total number of possible outcomes when you roll three number cubes, toss five coins, and pick a number from one to ten.
What is 69,120