Probability
The probability of rolling a 6 on a fair dice.
What is 1 out of 6?
Look at the data. What are the numbers that are associated with the colors in the rainbow?
Red: 5, 67, 3 Pink: 45, 6 Golden-brown: 6
Purple: 11, 7 Turquoise: 87, 65 Blue: 29
What is 5, 67, 3, 11, 7, 29?
How likely is it that it will rain tomorrow? (Use a weather forecast and plot: Impossible, Unlikely, Likely, Certain.)
What is not Impossible or Certain, it can always rain anytime, or it can not rain at anytime. If above 50% rain or 50% rain, it is Likely, if below 50% it is Unlikely.
Probabilities of: 0.4 0.06 0.98 1.0 0.009 0.0 0.36
Impossible, Unlikely, Likely, Certain
What is:
Impossible: 0.0
Unlikely: 0.009, 0.4, 0.06, 0.36
Likely: 0.98
Certain: 1.0
Lydia and Calla are asking their classmates about their favorite animals. Lydia suggests asking everyone in the class, while Calla says they should ask everyone in the class plus the teacher so they get a bigger variety and the data is more accurate. The correct way to measure favorite animals.
What is Lydia's suggestion?
(The teacher is not part of the classmate population, therefore the data would be less accurate because it wouldn't just be the classmates' opinions.)
The probability of rolling a 3 on a fair coin.
What is impossible?
Is this a statistical question: What is the age range of your pet turtle and your pet lizard?
What is no?
A range is one number, not a variety of data.
Probability of rolling an even number and 3 on 1 fair dice.
What is impossible?
You cannot roll a 3 at the same time you roll an even number on 1 fair dice.
Is this a statistical question: What are the ages of your friend and your little sisters?
What is yes?
The different ways of expressing probability.
What is percentage, "out of" form, decimal form?
Is it possible for Danielle to get the same ANSWER if she changes, "how old is your dog" to "what is the age of your dog compared to YOUR age"? Explain how you know.
What is no?
What is this is because the first question is not a statistical question, it only displays the one piece of data of the dog's age. The second question is statistical because it compares 2 pieces of data: your dog's age and your age.