| Important Probability Definitions | Probability of Events Definitions | School Lunch Probability: Your choices are Pizza, Cheeseburger, or Chicken Nuggets with a side of Fries or Salad and choice of Milk, Juice, or Water to drink. | Probability Brain Teasers | Crayon Probability: You have a bag of crayons. In the bag you have 3 Red, 2 Blue, 4 Green and 1 Orange one. |
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What is an experiment
An activity, such as spinning a spinner, tossing a coin, or rolling a die
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What is impossible event
An event when the probability is known ahead of time to be not possible or defined to be zero which means it can never happen
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What is 18
How many different lunch choices are there?
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What is 60
The Hilton has free breakfast with each day booked. The choice is eggs, toast, bagel, pancakes, or waffles with your choice of apple, orange, or banana and choice of coffee, hot chocolate, milk, or juice. How many possible outcomes?
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What is 3/10
Whats the chance of getting a red crayon?
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What is outcome
Different results that can occur
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What is a certain event
An event that contains all possible outcomes
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What is 6
How many lunch choices will include pizza
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What is 100
You have to take a Math test with 25 questions. Each question is multiple choice with 4 possible answers. How many possible answers?
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What is 2/5
Whats the chance of getting a green crayon?
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What is the sample space
The set of all outcomes of an experiment is called
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What is a compound event
An event that can be described in terms of the union, intersection, or complement of other sets
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What is 1/3
What is the probability that your lunch will contain pizza?
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What is 1/32
Your son asks you for three certain Star Wars Lego sets at Walmart. When you get there, you forget the specific one. They have 32 different Star Wars sets with three different sizes. Whats the chance of selecting the right three?
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What is 1/50
What are the chance of getting an orange and blue crayon without putting them back?
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What is experimental probability
When you conduct experiments and observe the results to determine probability
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What is a mutually exclusive events
When events A and B are disjointed
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What is 1/2
What is the probability that your lunch will include Fries?
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What is 1024
You have a handful of 10 different coins and toss them. How many different outcomes are there?
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What is 7/10
What are the chances of not getting a blue or orange crayon?
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What is theoretical probability
The probability that is expected
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What is complementary event
An event that has no outcomes in common, and their union contains all the outcomes of the sample space
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What is 1/9
What are the chances of getting a Cheeseburger meal with a milk?
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What is 315
On Friday at Dale's Place at 4pm 60 people are there eating and 45 of them order the fish dinner. If 420 people ate there on Friday, how many of them would you expect to order the fish dinner?
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What is 1/20
What are the chances of getting a red and blue crayon without putting them back?
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