Determining Probability

What is the sample space for this spinner?

• 1

• 8

• 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8

• 50/50

What is the sample space for choosing 1 jelly bean from a jar of 4 red, 7 blue, and 2 green jellybeans?

• 4, 7, and 2

• red, blue, green

• 2 green

• 4 red

Danny has a bag of Jolly Ranchers. The bag contains 1 green, 5 red, 4 blue, and 6 purple Jolly Ranchers. If he randomly draws one from the bag, which of the following represents the sample space?

• green, red, red, red, red, red, blue, blue, blue, blue, purple, purple, purple, purple, purple, purple

• green, red, blue, purple

• green, red, blue, yellow

• red, blue, orange, purple

What is the sample space for the jar of marbles?

• red

• red, yellow, green, blue

• red and yellow

• red and green

What is the sample space for choosing a letter from the word "DIVIDE?"

• D, I, V, E

• D, I, V, I, D, E

• D

• I

A measurement of the likelihood of an event or events occurring on a scale of 0 to 1 is called - 

• data

• luck

• probability

• trials

The extent to which something is likely to occur is known as - 

• sample space

• an event

• probability

• data

The number of ways an event can occur divided by the total number of outcomes is known as - 

• an event complement

• experimental probability

• an event

• theoretical probability

The ratio of the number of times an event occurred compared to the total number of trials conducted is known as - 

• theoretical probability

• experimental probability

• simple probability

• compound probability

Which of the following expressions would be used to calculate the complement of an event occurring?

• P(event) - 1

• P(event 1) x    P(event 2)

• P(event)/possible outcomes

• 1 - P(event)