Marbles
Dice
Spinners
Theoretical or Experimental
Word Problems
100
There are 5 blue marbles in a bag and two red marbles in a bag, what is the probability of drawing a blue marble.
What is 5/7?
100
If you roll the dice, what is the probability that you will roll a 6?
What is 1/6?
100
You have a spinner with 4 equal sections: red, green, yellow and purple. What is the probability that you will spin and the arrow will land on green?
What is 1/4
100
You have a spinner with 4 equal sections of orange, blue, red and black. The probability of spinning any color is 1/4. What kind of probability am I using.
What is theoretical probability?
100
Jessica has 4 kittens in a box. 2 are black and 2 are white. What is the probability that she will pick a black kitten?
What is 1/2
200
You have 5 blue marbles and 4 red marbles in a bag. What is the probability that you will draw a a red marble, replace it, then a blue marble?
What is 20/81?
200
If you roll the dice, what is the probability that you will roll a 7?
What is 0/7 or 0?
200
You have a spinner with 4 equal sections: red, green, yellow and purple. What is the probability that you will spin and the arrow will NOT land on purple?
What is 3/4?
200
A coin is tossed 100 times. Fifty-two outcomes are heads. The probability of heads is 52/100 or 13/25. What type of probability is being used.
What is experimental probability?
200
Jacob has 7 jolly ranchers. 2 are red, 4 are green and one is pink. What is the probability that he will pick a blue one at random?
What is 0
300
You have a bag with 2 green marbles, 3 red and 5 yellow. What is the probability that you will draw a green marble, NOT replace it, then draw a red marble?
What is 1/15?
300
If you roll the dice, what is the probability that you will roll a prime number?
What is 1/2?
300
You have a spinner with 4 equal sections: red, green, yellow and purple. What is the probability that you will spin and the arrow will land on green, then spin again and land on yellow?
What is 1/16?
300
A number cube is rolled 60 times. Twelve outcomes are the number 3. What is the experimental probability of rolling a 3?
12/60 better answer... 1/5?
300
Joanna rolls 2 dice. What is the probability that she will roll a sum of 7?
What is 7/36
400
You have a bag of marbles: One black, 2 orange and 3 purple. What is the probability that you will draw a black, then orange, then purple (replacing them each time)?
What is 1/36?
400
If you roll one number cube twice, what is the probability that you will roll a 6, then an even number?
What is 1/12?
400
You have two spinners. One with 5 equal sections: red, green, yellow, blue and purple. One with 6 sections labeled 1-6. What is the probability that you will spin and land on green, then spin and land on 2?
What is 1/30?
400
A number cube is rolled 60 times. The results were 1-14 times, 2-6 times, 3-12 times, 4-8 times 5-7 times and 6-13 times. What is the theoretical probability of rolling a 3?
1/6?
400
Kara wants to pick her crush's name out of a hat to be her lab partner. There are 30 people in her class. What is the probability that she will pick his name?
What is 1/30
500
You have a bag of marbles: One black, 2 orange and 3 purple. What is the probability that you will draw three purple (without replacing them each time)?
What is 1/20?
500
If you roll two dice at once, what is the probability that you will roll a sum of 8?
What is 5/36? (36 possibilities... favorable 2+6, 3+5, 4+4, 5+3 and 6+2)
500
You have two spinners. One with 5 equal sections: 2 red, 1 yellow, 1 blue and 1 purple. One with 6 sections labeled 1-6. What is the probability that you will spin and land on red, then spin and land on an odd number?
What is 1/5?
500
Explain the difference between theoretical probability and experimental probability.
theoretical probability is what SHOULD actually happen, experimental probability is based on the outcomes obtained from an experiment
500
Maximillian Anthony Archibald wants to find the probability of picking a vowel from the letters in his name. What is the probability?
What is 10/27