Qualitative and Quantitative Predictions

Alejandro surveyed the students in the cafeteria during his lunch period to find out their favorite meal. Based on the table, fill in the blank to create a true statement.

The student's favorite meal is 3 times as likely to be ____________ as it is to be _________________.

• chicken nuggets, grilled chicken sandwich

• grilled chicken sandwich, chicken nuggets

• chicken nuggets, hamburger

• pizza, grilled chicken sandwich

Tags

CCSS.3.NF.A.3A

CCSS.3.NF.A.3B

CCSS.4.NF.A.1

Alejandro surveyed the students in the cafeteria during his lunch period to find out their favorite meal. Based on the table, fill in the blank to create a true statement.

The student's favorite meal is equally likely to be ____________ or _________________ combined as it is to be chicken nuggets.

• hamburgers, grilled chicken sandwich

• chicken nuggets, pizza

• hamburger, pizza

• hamburger, chicken nuggets

Alejandro surveyed the students in the cafeteria during his lunch period to find out their favorite meal. Based on the table, fill in the blank to create a true statement.

The student's favorite meal is less likely to be ______________ than any other meal.

• chicken nuggets

• hamburger

• grilled chicken sandwich

• pizza

Alejandro surveyed the students in the cafeteria during his lunch period to find out their favorite meal. Based on the table, fill in the blank to create a true statement.

The student's favorite meal is 2 times as likely to be ____________ as it is to be _____________.

• pizza, hamburger

• hamburger, pizza

• grilled chicken sandwich, chicken nuggets

• grilled chicken sandwich, hamburger

Tags

CCSS.5.OA.B.3

A bag contains:

12 green marbles

3 yellow marbles

15 blue marbles

A marble is randomly selected from a bag.

It is 5 times as likely yo select a blue marble as it is to select a yellow marble.

Determine if each probability is true or false.

• true

• false

A bag contains:

12 green marbles

3 yellow marbles

15 blue marbles

A marble is randomly selected from a bag.

It is equally likely to select a green marble as it is to select a blue marble.

Determine if each probability is true or false.

• true

• false

Matt has a bag of candy from a party. The bag contains 8 chocolate bars, 5 pieces of gum, 4 lollipops, and 8 jawbreakers. Which statement is true?

• The probability of randomly selecting a piece of gum is less than the probability of randomly selecting a lollipop.

• The probability of randomly selecting a chocolate bar is equal to the probability of randomly selecting a jawbreaker.

• The probability of randomly selecting a lollipop is greater than the probability of randomly selecting a chocolate bar.

• The probability of randomly selecting a piece of gum is 1 out of 4.

A bag contains:

5 blue marbles

3 green marbles

2 red marbles

If a marble is selected at random, which is a valid statement about the marbles?

• It is 2 times as likely to select a blue marble as to select a green marble

• It is less likely to select a blue marble as to select a green marble

• It is equally likely to select green or red marble as is to select a blue marble.

• It is less likely to select a green marble than any other marble.

A bag contains:

5 red marbles

4 blue marbles

10 green marbles

11 yellow marbles

A marble is selected from the bag, which of the given statements is not valid.

• the probability of selecting a green marble is 1/3

• the probability of selecting a red or blue marble is 3/10

• A marble will be drawn from the bag 60 times. A reasonable prediction of times a red will be drawn is 10 times

• the probability of yellow marble is 1/11

A bag contains:

5 red marbles

4 blue marbles

10 green marbles

11 yellow marbles

A marble is selected from the bag, which of the given statements is not valid.

• the marble is more likely to be yellow than any other color

• the marble is twice as likely to be green as it is to be red

• the marble is more likely to be green than red or blue

• the marble is more likely yo be green or blue than yellow or red