Probability with a Deck of Cards
Probability with Dice
Probability Vocabulary
Probability with Historical Data
Theoretical vs.
Experimental
Experimental
Probability Potluck
100
Probability of drawing a 2 (as a percent)
19%
100
the probability of rolling a 2 (give answer as a fraction)
1/6
100
the ratio of the number of ways an event can occur to the total number of equally likely outcomes
Theoretical Probability
100
How many degrees are in a quadrilateral?
360
100
Mr. Barker found the probability of drawing a spade to be 1/5 or 20%. Did he find the theoretical or experimental probability?
Experimental Probability
100
Given a 4 color spinner with equal parts (red, blue, yellow, green) what is the probability of spinning red?
1/4 or 25%
200
Probability of drawing the Queen of Hearts?
1/52
200
Probability of an even number or a 1
(give as a percent)
67%
200
Events that have no influence on each other
Independent
200
Is the following categorical or numerical?
- Favourite pizza toppings.
categorical
200
Probability of flipping heads twice in a row (as a fraction)
1/4
200
You have a bag of marbles, four red and five green. What is the probability of choosing red?
(4/9) or 44%
300
What are the 3 main types of triangle?
- Scalene.
- Isosceles.
- Equilateral.
300
Probability of rolling an 8 on a single 6-sided die?
0 - impossible
300
The ratio of actual outcomes to the total number of possible outcomes in repeated trials
Experimental Probability
300
Is the following categorical or numerical?
Number of red cars on the Bruce highway per day.
numerical
300
What is the theoretical probability of landing on green or blue?
1/2 or 50%
300
Given a 4 color spinner with equal parts (red, blue, yellow, green), the probability of spinning red then blue (as a fraction)
1/16
400
How many degrees are in a triangle?
180
400
probability of rolling a 5, then a 2 (as a fraction)
1/36
400
What is the range of the following dataset?
1, 9, 16, 19, 20, 1, 4, 20, 13, 16, 8, 9, 12, 19, 20
19
400
At a bingo game the numbers that can be called are between 1 and 60.
What is the probability that 8 is called?
1/60
400
What is the experimental probability of landing on green or blue?
3/8 or 38%
400
the theoretical probability of rolling a one THEN picking a red card out of a deck of cards
1/12 or 8%
1/6 * 1/2 (half of cards are red so 1/2)
500
the probability of flipping a coin to heads, then rolling a 3 on a die (as a fraction)
1/12
500
the probability of rolling a six or five on a 6-sided die.
2/6 = 1/2
500
What is the mode of the following dataset?
1, 9, 16, 19, 20, 1, 4, 20, 13, 16, 8, 9, 12, 19, 20
20
500
At a bingo game the numbers that can be called are between 1 and 60.
What is the probability that 8, 6, 30 or 40 is called?
4/60 = 1/15
500
What is the theoretical probability of not landing on green?
3/4 or 75%
500
What is the theoretical probability of picking a purple marble?
2/11 or 18%
600
If two angles in a triangle are 42 and 75 degrees, what is the missing angle?
63 degrees
600
What is the mean of the following dataset?
1, 9, 16, 19, 20, 1, 4, 20, 13, 16, 8, 9, 12, 19, 20
12.46
600
After repeated trials the experimental probability should get _________ to the theoretical probability
closer
600
At a bingo game the numbers that can be called are between 1 and 60.
What is the probability that a number less than 15 is called?
=14/60 = 7/30
600
What is the experimental probability of not landing on green?
17/20 or 85%
600
What is the probability of landing on a green, then pulling a red marble, then spinning not orange?
15/176 or 9%