Probability Vocabulary
Practice Probability
Word Problems
Statistics Vocabulary
Statistics Practice
100

______ - The measure of chance 

Probability! 

100

What is the Probability (number) of an event if it is impossible? 

Answer: 0

100

If you do a lot of studying, it is ____ you will get a good grade! 

Likely! 

100

______ - Conducting studies to collect, organize, summarize, Analize and draw conclusions from data. 

Statistics!

100

Find the mean of the set of numbers. 

12,3,5,4,6

answer: 6

200
_____ - an event will happen without a doubt. 

Certain 

200

Out of the following possibilities, which answer is not possible? 

A. 2

B. 3/10  

C. 1/9

D. -1 

Answer: -1 

200

Mrs. Adams is having a Christmas part with her class tomorrow. she went to the store and got 8 chocolate cookies, 4 sugar cookies, 9 M and M cookies, and 3 raisin cookies. What is the probability of getting a sugar cookie?   

Answer: 1/6

200

Which type of graph does not have gaps in the bars?

histogram

200

find the mode of the numbers in the data set. 

14, 32, 63, 14, 31, 9, 36 

Answer: 14

300

_____ - When the probability of one event is higher than the probability of another event. 

Likely! 

300

What is the probability of getting an even number, if a dice is thrown? Simplify your answer

Answer: 1/2

300
The mini-Golf scores of you and 5 friends are 21, 16, 27, 30, 24, 32. What is the average score of the group? 

(Hint - are you finding the mean, or mode for this equation?) 

 

Answer: 25

300

What are the 3 measures of center?

Mean, Median, Mode

300

Find the median of the data set. 

10, 8, 18, 16, 14, 5, 

Answer: 12

400

_____ - There is no chance of an event happening. 

Impossible 

400

A number is chosen between 1- 10.  Find the probability of selecting the number 4 or smaller. Simplify your answer

Answer: 2/5

400

In a bag, there are 6 orange, 7 white, and 8 blue marbles. If a marble is picked at random, what is the chance of not being orange or blue? 

Answer: 1/3
400

What type of data is the colour of cars in a car park?

Double points for both types

Categorical - nominal

400

Find the mean of the data set. 

15, 14, 2, 9, 13, 15, 9 

Answer: 11

500

______ - There is less of a chance this event will happen, compared to another event. 

least Likely!

500

If you flip a coin 150 times, approximately how many times would you expect it to land on tails? 

Answer: 75 times

500

you are playing a game with a regular six-sided dice. You are 3 points away from winning the game. What is the probability of rolling a 3? 

1/6

500

What are mutually exclusive events?

Two events that cannot happen at the same time. 

500
Find the mode of the numbers in the data. 

14, 15, 22, 24, 14, 74, 23 , 15

Answer: 14, 15