Statistics Math 4 Chapter 3.1

What does the law of large numbers mean?

• The more you try, the more likely you are to get what you want.
• No matter how many times you try, the probability remains the same.
• Trying harder is a good idea.

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If you flip a coin 40 times and get heads every time.  What is the likelihood of flipping a tails the 41st time? 

• 1/41
• 40/41
• 1/2

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If you roll to dice, what is the likelihood that you will roll two numbers that are the same?

• 1/6
• 2/36
•  1/36
• 1/12

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If you have a color wheel and there are four colors, what is the likelihood you will spin the color you want?

• 4
• 1
• 2/3
• 1/4

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A statistician calculates the probability of an event in an experiment. After a dozen trials of the experiment, the statistician finds that the theoretical probability and the experimental probability differ. What is the likely reason for this?

• The statistician hasn't completed enough trials of the experiment.
• The statistician made an error in their calculations.
• The statistician made an error in constructing their experiment.
• The statistician has completed too many trials of the experiment.

You toss a coin 100 times, and it lands on heads every time. What is the probability it will land on tails the 101st toss?

• 1/101
• 1/100
• 1/2
• 1/5

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How do you write 0.02 as a percent?

• 20%
• 200%
• 2%
• .02%

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The theoretical probability of rolling an even number on a dice.

• 3/6
• 1/2
• 1/6
• 5/6

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What is probability?

• A number between zero and one
• The chance or the likelihood of an event happening
• The favorable outcomes divided by all the possible outcomes.
• All of the choices are true.

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Review: A list of all possible outcomes of a trial is called the ___________ of that trial.

• experiment
• sample space
• Event
• range

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