6-12-2 PLUS Experimental Probability

Q1. In 75 coin tosses, Mike got heads 30 times. What is the experimental probability that he will get tails on his next toss?

• 2/5

• 3/5

• 3/4

• 1/2

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Q2. Babe Ruth had 2873 hits out of 8399 at bats. What would be his experimental probability of getting a hit?

• 30%

• 34.2%

• 65.8%

• 35%

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Q3. Kyleigh saw 10 blue, 8 red, and 42 white cars drive by her house in 1 hour. What is the experimental probability that the next car the drives by her house will not be a white car?

• 3%

• 58%

• 30%

• 70%

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Q4. A restaurant surveys customers with the following results: 8 pizzas, 12 hamburgers, 14 pastas, and 6 steaks. What is the experimental probability of pizza or steak?

P(pizza or steak)

• 20%

• 65%

• 50%

• 35%

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Q5. The bar graph shows the results of spinning a spinner multiple times in an experiment. What is the experimental probability of landing on a 3?

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Q6. The table shows the results of multiple rolls of a number cube. According to the data in the table, what was the experimental probability of rolling a 1?

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Q7. Shannon has a bag of jelly beans. She removed one jelly bean, recording the color, and then replaced it. She repeated the process many times and record her results in the table. What is the experimental probability of her selecting a red jelly bean?

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Q8. Jana flipped a coin 20 times and got Tails 11 times.

Mike flipped a coin 25 times and got Tails 13 times.

Bill flipped a coin 10 times and got Tails 5 times.

Whose experimental probability to get tails is better?

• Jana

• Mike

• Bill

• They are all the same

Q9. The Dinos won 16 of their last 18 basketball games. The Gators won 18 of their last 21 basketball games. The Bears won 17 of their last 20 basketball games. The Penguins won 14 of their last 17 basketball games. Which team’s experimental probability of wining is best?

• Dinos

• Gators

• Bears

• Penguins

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Q10. Which is NOT an example of using experimental probability?

• Calling heads on a coin flip because 4 of the last 5 flips were heads

• Betting that the Bison will win the national title next year because they’ve won 8 of the last 9

• Guessing that a girl’s name will be chosen from a hat because there are more girls’ names inside than boys’

• Guessing you will roll a 4 on your next roll because you’ve gotten a 4 on 5 of your last 8 rolls