Probability Quiz Review 1

Probability Quiz Review

Unit 8 Quiz 1

What is a sample space?

• The collection of ALL possible outcomes in an "experiment" or "event"

• Is used to find the probability of an event occuring.

Multiple Choice

  Which of the following describes theoretical probability?

• a.  Perform an experiment to determine the probability
• a.      Determining the expected probability of an event
• a.  Perform a simulation and count the number of possible outcomes
• a.  Use trials to count the number of desired outcomes

Multiple Choice

Experimental Probability is:

• What Will happen 
• What actually happens
• What should happen
• What I think Happens

Multiple Choice

P(King)?

• 1/13
• 2/13
• 3/13
• 4/13

Multiple Choice

If you have a standard deck of cards (52 cards) what is the probability of drawing the Queen of Hearts?

• 1/52
• 1/51
• 1/4
• 4/52

Multiple Choice

What is the sample space when rolling a regular number cube?

• 1

• 2, 4, 6

• 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

• 6

Multiple Choice

Deon has 7 white chips, 5 red chips, and 8 blue chips in a bag. Without looking, Deon pulls a chip out, records the color, and puts it back in the bag. He does this 200 times. About how many times could Deon expect to pull out a blue chip?

• 25

• 65

• 80

• 100

Multiple Choice

• 3/20

• 1/3

• 3/5

• 2/5

Multiple Choice

A box has 6 red pens, 8 black pens, 2 blue pens, and 4 purple pens.

P(red or blue) =

• 2/5

• 3/5

• 4/5

• 1/5

Multiple Choice

A box has 6 red pens, 8 black pens, 2 blue pens, and 4 purple pens.

complement of P(red or blue) =

• 2/5

• 3/5

• 4/5

• 1/5

Multiple Choice

What is the theoretical probability of picking a vowel from the letters A, B, C, D, and E?

• 2/5
• 2/3
• 1/5
• 25%