2023 PROBABILLITY QUIZ

Determine whether the event is impossible, unlikely, as likely as not, likely, or certain:

Guessing the answer to a true/false question correctly.

• impossible

• unlikely

• as likely as not

• likely

• certain

Carl is conducting a survey for the school paper. He finds that 7 students have no pets, 15 have one pet, and 9 have at least two pets. What is the experimental probability that the next student Carl asks will not have a pet?

Determine whether the event is impossible, unlikely, as likely as not, likely, or certain:

Your Apple Music is set up to play songs at random from the music library. The music library has 2000 songs, including your favorite. When you press shuffle, what is the likelihood the first song you hear will be your favorite song?

• impossible

• unlikely

• as likely as not

• likely

• certain

A spinner with 10 equal sections each numbered 1 through 10 is spun. Find the probability that the number spun will be a 5.

Mrs. Pharr tosses a coin and spins a 2 section spinner labeled 1 and 2. What is the probabilty that she will flip heads and land on a 2?

A spinner is divided in to fourths and is labeled 1-4. John spins the spinner and tosses a coin. What is the probability of flipping heads and spinning a 1?

Jason rolls a standard dice 100 times and rolls an odd number 59 times. He states that the theoretical probability of rolling a dice and getting an odd number is 59/100. Is this a true or false statement?

• TRUE

• FALSE

An ice cream vendor has 4 varieties of ice cream flavors (vanilla, strawberry, chocolate, blueberry) and 3 types of toppings (chocolate syrup, caramel, oreos) to be sprinkled over the sundae ice cream.

How many different sundae ice creams are possible?

• 12

• 13

• 14

• CANNOT BE DETERMINED FROM THE INFORMATION GIVEN

An ice cream vendor has 4 varieties of ice cream flavors (vanilla, strawberry, chocolate, blueberry) and 3 types of toppings (chocolate syrup, caramel, oreos) to be sprinkled over the sundae ice cream.

What is the probability that a customer chooses the strawberry sundae ice cream with caramel on it?

• CANNOT BE DETERMINED FROM THE INFORMATION GIVEN

Karlie is running for school secretary. She estimates her chances of winning to be 2/7.

Which likelihood best describes Karlie’s estimated chances of winning?

• IMPOSSIBLE

• UNLIKELY

• LIKELY

• CERTAIN