A) Vocabulary
the list of all possible outcomes
What is the sample space?
A cup has sticks numbered 1 through 13. What is the probability of an odd number?
What is 7/13?
A coin and a die are both rolled. What is the probability of flipping tails and an even number?
What is (1/2 * 1/2 =) 1/4?
A spinner is equally divided into 8 sections. The sections are 1, triangle, 4, triangle, 3, rhombus, 5, circle. Spin a 3, the probability is...
What is 1/8?
What is experimental probability?
What is the outcome when an experiment is completed.
Balls are placed in a bucket. The balls are numbered from 1 to 25. One ball is randomly selected from the bucket. The probability that ball # 22 is selected is...
What is 1/25?
the result of an event
What is the outcome?
A spinner has 6 equal sections, red, blue, yellow, green, orange, and pink. What is the probability that the spinner will land on yellow?
What is 1/6?
A bag contains the following marbles: 4 red, 2 green, 3 yellow, and 1 orange. What is the probability that a green then a red will be picked, if the marble is replaced for the second draw.
What is (2/10 * 4/10 =) 8/100 or 2/25?
A spinner is equally divided into 8 sections. The sections are 1, triangle, 4, triangle, 3, rhombus, 5, circle. Spin a number, the probability is...
What is 1/2?
A boy tosses a coin and gets heads 7 times out of 20. Is this theoretical or experimental?
What is experimental?
9 blue, 3 red, 4 white marbles are in a bucket. The probability of pulling out a green marble is...
What is impossible?
what is expected/ predicted to happen in a probability question.
What is theoretical probability?
A spinner has 10 equal sections, 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9, and 10. If the spinner is spun, what is the probabilty of spinning a number less than 7?
What is 6/10 or 3/5?
A drawer contains 4 white, 4 black, 2 yellow, and 5 polka-dot socks and Julie wants to find a pair of yellow socks to wear to school. What is the probability that she will choose a pair of yellow socks in her first two picks if she doesn't replace the sock she draws first.
What is (2/15 * 1/14 =) 2/210 = 1/105?
A spinner is equally divided into 8 sections. The sections are 1, triangle, 4, triangle, 3, rhombus, 5, circle. Spin a shape, the probability is...
What is 1/2?
The probability of drawing a face card from a standard deck of cards is 3/13. Is this theoretical or experimental probability?
What is theoretical?
The letters ABCARES are placed in a bucket. The probability of pulling out the letter E is...
What is 1/7?
A drawer contains 20 socks: 8 blue, 4 green, 6 black, and 2 white. What is the probability of picking out a blue sock?
What is 8/20 or 2/5?
A blue number cube and an orange number cube are rolled. What is the P(3, then even)?
What is (1/6 * 1/2 =) 1/12?
(the colors are extraneous information)
A spinner is equally divided into 8 sections. The sections are 1, triangle, 4, triangle, 3, rhombus, 5, circle. Spin a quadrilateral, the probability is...
What is 1/8?
A heart is randomly chosen from a deck of cards 7 out of 12 times. What is the experimental probability?
What is 7/12?
6 blue, 7 green, 9 brown, and 15 yellow M&Ms are placed in a bucket. The probability of pulling out a yellow M&M is
What is 15/37?
A class has 20 boys and 12 girls. What is the percent chance that the teacher will choose a girl to answer a question?
What is 12/32 = 37.5%?
A spinner with equal sections of red, blue, green, and purple is spun while a number cube is rolled. What is the P (not blue and not a 3)
What is (3/4 * 5/6 =) 15/24 or 5/8?
A spinner is equally divided into 8 sections. The sections are 1, triangle, 4, triangle, 3, rhombus, 5, circle. Spin a prime number, the probability is...
What is 1/4?
A heart is randomly chosen from a deck of cards 7 out of 12 times. What is the theoretical probability?
What is 1/4?
2 red, 5 blue, 8 green, and 3 yellow chips are placed in a bucket. The color with the greatest chance of being drawn is...
What is green?