Understand Theoretical Probability

A bag contains 5 quarters, 2 dimes, and 4 pennies. What is the probability of picking a quarter?

• 5/11

• 5/6

• 1/3

• 5

What is the probability of spinning an odd number?

• 3/6

• 1/2

• 1/3

• 1/6

If you choose from the following M & M colors, what is the probability that you choose brown? **Remember to simplify**

• 7/26

• 4/13

• 8/25

• 1/3

A bag contains 5 quarters, 2 dimes, and 4 pennies. What is the probability of picking a dime?

• 2/11

• 5/6

• 1/3

• 5

Theoretical P(Green or Red)

• 2/6

• 1/5

• 2/5

• 1/5

What is the probability of flipping a coin, getting tails?

• 1/2

• 1/3

• 1/4

• Never, Tails never fails.

What is the probability of rolling a number greater than 2?

• 3/5

• 4/5

• 2/5

• 1/5

If you choose from the following M & M colors, what is the probability that you choose blue? **Remember to simplify**

5 green

6 yellow

8 blue

7 brown

• 8/18

• 4/13

• 8/25

• 1/3

A bag contains 30 pieces of candy. There are 15 grape, 7 cherry, 3 lemon, 5 strawberry. What is the probability of drawing a lemon?

*Remember to simplify*

• 3

• 1/10

• 3/10

• 30%

Find the theoretical probability of NOT landing on yellow if you spin the spinner.

• 1/8

• 7/8

• 1

• 7