Compound Probability

What is the probability of landing on the color blue on the spinner?

• 3/3
• 1

• 3/12 or 1/4
• 3/9 or 1/3

What is the probability of the spinner landing on red?

• 5/12
• 7/12

• 5/5
• 5/10 or 1/2

A bag has 3 red marbles, 2 blue and 4 green and 1 yellow. What is the theoretical probability of pulling a red?

• 3/10

• 3/9

• 1/10

• 1/9

A spinner has 5 sections of equal size labeled P, Q, R, S, and T. The arrow of this spinner is spun 15 times and landed 4 times on the section labeled Q.
Which statement best describes the experimental probability and theoretical probability of the arrow landing on the section labeled Q? 

• The experimental probability is 4/15, and the theoretical probability is 1/5.
• The experimental probability is 1/5, and the theoretical probability is 1/5.
• The experimental probability is 4/15, and the theoretical probability is 4/15.
• The experimental probability is 1/5, and the theoretical probability is 4/15.

Probability can be written as ...

• a fraction
• a decimal
• a percent
• all of the above

Theoretical Probability is?

• What Should happen
• What does happen
• What Will Happen
• What I want to Happen

Experimental Probability is:

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

The chart below represents the number of marbles in a jar.
P(green) = 

• 5/19
• 10/28
• 5/14

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

The letters that form the word ALGEBRA are placed in a bowl. What is the probability of choosing a letter other than “A”? 

• 2/7
• 5/49
• 5/7
• 10/49