Probability

The following M & M colors are in the bowl:
4 yellow, 6 orange, 3 green, 5 blue, 2 brown.
What is the probability of selecting a brown candy?

• 2/18
• 1/9
• 2/20
• 1/10

What is the probability of rolling an even number on a dice. The dice is numbered 1-6.

• 3/6
• 1/2
• 1/6
• 5/6

What is the probability of getting any letter that is not A?

• 6/8
• 3/4
• 2/8
• 1/4

Deion has two bags of marbles. In the bag labeled ‘A’, he has 3 green, 4 blue and 10 yellow marbles. In the bag labeled ‘B’, he has 13 green, 5 blue, and 12 yellow marbles. Deion wants the bag with the highest probability of selecting a blue marble. Which of the following statements is true?

• It does not matter which bag he chooses because the probabilities are the same.
• He should choose Bag B because there are fewer blue marbles.
• He should choose Bag A because the probability of selecting a blue marble is higher.
• He should choose Bag B because the probability of selecting a blue marble is higher.

What is the sample space for a standard six-sided die?

• 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

• 6

• 100%

• 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

Kate spun the spinner 75 times and landed on "3" thirty times.

What is the experimental probability as a percentage?

• 20%

• 30%

• 40%

• 50%

Experimental Probability is:

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

  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

A bag contains 5 quarters, 2 dimes, and 4 pennies. What is the probability of picking a quarter?

• 5/11
• 5/6
• 1/3
• 5

The bar graph shows the results of spinning the spinner 200 times. What is the experimental probability of landing on a 3?

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