STAAR RC #1 Vocabulary Quiz

A number that describes how likely it is that an event will occur

• Sample Space

• Outcome

• Probability

• Tree Diagram

Two or more events that have the same chance of happening.

• Less Likely

• More Likely

• Equally Likely

• Impossible

All whole numbers (both positive and negative) and zero.

**Choose the most specific answer.

• Integers

• Whole Numbers

• Rational Numbers

• Natural Numbers

What should occur or what we expect to happen in an experiment.

• Theoretical Probability

• Experimental Probability

The probability that an event will NOT happen.

• Compound Event

• Simple Event

• Complement of Probability

• Independent Event

Events for which the outcome of the second event does not depend on previous outcomes.

• Simple Event

• Independent Event

• Compound Event

• Dependent Event

A possible result of a probability experiment

• Outcome

• Sample Space

• Tree Diagram

• Random

An event consisting of two or more simple events.

• Independent Event

• Dependent Event

• Compound Event

• Simple Event

Probability based on data from repeating an event (doing an experiment)

• Theoretical Probability

• Experimental Probability

An event that is affected by the outcome of another event.

• Simple Event

• Compound Event

• Independent Event

• Dependent Event