Experimental/Theoretical
This probability is what does happen.
What is experimental probability?
This is the probability of getting heads on a coin flip.
What is 1/2 or 50%.
This is the probability of getting Tails/Tails when you flip a coin twice.
What is 1/4 or 25%?
What is 8?
This is 1/2 as a percent.
This is the probability that should happen.
What is theoretical probability?
This is the probability of rolling a 2 on a dice.
What is 1/6 or 17%?
This is the probability of rolling double 1s on 2 dice.
What is 1/36 or 3%?
This is the number of possible combinations of numbers you can get if you roll a dice 3 times.
What is 216?
This is 3/10 as a percent.
What is 30%?
This kind of probability never changes.
What is theoretical probability?
This is the probability of rolling a 9 on a standard dice.
What is 0%?
The track team has black, gold and white jerseys and black, gold and white shorts. This is the probability that they will wear black and gold together.
What is 2/9 or 22%?
This is the number of outfits you can make from 5 shirts, 4 pairs of pants and 2 pairs of shoes.
What is 40 outfits?
This is 2/7 as a percent rounded to the nearest whole percent.
What is 29%
The longer you play a game, the probability of your wins will get closer to this.
What is the theoretical probability?
This is the probability of not pulling a red marble in a bag with a red, a blue, a green and a yellow marble.
What is 3/4 or 75%?
This is the probability of getting all tails when you flip a coin 3 times.
What is 1/8 or 12.5%?
This is the number of pizza combinations you can make with 2 kinds of crust, 2 kinds of sauce, 4 kinds of meat, 6 kinds of veggies, and 3 kinds of cheese. (Assume you can only have one of each.)
What is 288 pizza combinations?
This is 32% as a simplified fraction.
What is 8/25?
This is what you need to know for the denominator in theoretical probability.
What is the number of possible outcomes?
This is the probability of rolling a number divisible by 3 on a dice.
What is 2/6 or 1/3 or 33%?
If there is a 30% chance of rain on Saturday and a 40% chance of rain on Sunday, this is the probability that it will rain both days.
What is 12%?
A standard combination lock has 3 numbers in it. There are 40 numbers available on the lock. This is the number of different possible combinations that can be made.
What is 64,000 combinations?
This is 12.5% as a simplified fraction.
What is 1/8?