Find the probability of a student choosing Find the probability of a student choosing NC State. either East Carolina or Duke. Find the probability of a student choosing a Find the probability of a student choosing a college that does not have a shade of blue college that is located in the triangle. as their school color. Find the probability of the missing outcome. There are three choices of pets to pick There are four types of candy in a bag – out at Pick-A-Pet. You can choose from a starbursts, jolly ranchers, snickers and dog, cat or hamster. The probability of milky ways. At random, the probability of getting a dog is 3/8 and the probability of picking a starburst is 2/5, a jolly rancher is getting a cat is 1/4. Find the probability of 18% and a milky way is 0.2. What is the getting a hamster. probability of picking a snickers at random? Describe a bag of M&M’s in which each of the following probabilities exists. P(yellow) = P(brown) = P(green) = yellow: brown: green: total: P(red) = P(red or orange) = P(blue) = red: orange: blue: total: Determine the likelihood and write a ratio to represent each probability (if possible). “S” I am going to have It is going to rain I will pick a or I will choose a “T” math homework tomorrow. a from the quarter from a bag “Skittles”. tomorrow night. word that has only 7 quarters. Theoretical Probability Experimental Probability Based on and calculating all of the Based on repeated of an knowing actual trials equally likely outcomes of an experiment. experiment. What SHOULD happen. What ACTUALLY happened. P(event) = # of favorable outcomes P(event) = # of outcomes that occurred
Find the probability of a student choosing NC State. Find the probability of a student choosing either East Carolina or Duke. Find the probability of a student choosing a college that does not have a shade of blue as their school color. Find the probability of a student choosing a college that is located in the triangle. Find the probability of the missing outcome. There are three choices of pets to pick out at Pick-A-Pet. You can choose from a dog, cat or hamster. The probability of getting a dog is 3/8 and the probability of getting a cat is 1/4. Find the probability of getting a hamster. There are four types of candy in a bag – starbursts, jolly ranchers, snickers and milky ways. At random, the probability of picking a starburst is 2/5, a jolly rancher is 18% and a milky way is 0.2. What is the probability of picking a snickers at random? Describe a bag of M&M’s in which each of the following probabilities exists. P(yellow) = P(brown) = P(green) = yellow: brown: green: total: P(red) = P(red or orange) = P(blue) = red: orange: blue: total: Determine the likelihood and write a ratio to represent each probability (if possible). I am going to have math homework tomorrow night. It is going to rain tomorrow. I will pick a “S” or a “T” from the word “Skittles”. I will choose a quarter from a bag that has only 7 quarters. Theoretical Probability Based on knowing and calculating all of the equally likely outcomes of an experiment. What SHOULD happen. P(event) = # of favorable outcomes Experimental Probability Based on actual repeated trials of an experiment. What ACTUALLY happened. P(event) = # of outcomes that occurred
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