Theoretical OR Experimental

There are 4 red, 2 pink, and 6 yellow flowers. What is the probability of choosing a pink flower?

• theoretical
• experimental

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CCSS.7.SP.C.5

John flipped his coin 20 times. Out of those 20 flips, he got heads 15 times. What is the P(heads)?

• theoretical
• experimental

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CCSS.7.SP.C.5

CCSS.7.SP.C.6

CCSS.7.SP.C.7

Bobby and Angie made 12 chocolate chip cookies, 20 peanut butter cookies and 10 snickerdoodles. They handed them out randomly to their friends. What is the probability that Sara got a snickerdoodle? 

• theoretical
• experimental

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CCSS.7.SP.C.5

CCSS.7.SP.C.7

CCSS.7.SP.C.8

A dice is rolled 5000 times. The number 6 shows up 350 times. What is the probability of getting a 6?

• theoretical
• experimental

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CCSS.7.SP.C.5

CCSS.7.SP.C.6

CCSS.7.SP.C.7

A dice is rolled. What is the probability of getting a 6? 

• theoretical
• experimental

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CCSS.7.SP.C.5

Chad has five cards that are numbered 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5. He turns them face down and says “I have a 1 in 5, or 20% chance of drawing a 5.”

• theoretical
• experimental

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CCSS.7.SP.C.5

Chad asks a friend to draw a card from his stack of five cards. The friend draws a 3. Chad has him draw four more times and records the results.

• theoretical
• experimental

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CCSS.7.SP.A.1

CCSS.7.SP.A.2

CCSS.7.SP.C.5

CCSS.7.SP.C.6

CCSS.7.SP.C.7

Four friends are playing a board game. In order to decide who will go first, they decide to roll a six-sided number cube to see who comes closest to rolling a 6, because they know that is a fair way to decide.

• theoretical
• experimental

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CCSS.7.SP.C.5

Rory flips a coin four times in a row. She says “If I flip again, I have a 50% chance of it being heads.”

• theoretical
• experimental

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CCSS.7.SP.C.5

Cindy loves math. Whenever she has a free minute or two at the end of class, she rolls a six-sided number cube and records the results. She has recorded 500 results so far. 

• theoretical
• experimental

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CCSS.7.SP.C.5

CCSS.7.SP.C.6

CCSS.7.SP.C.7