Making Predictions with Simple Probability

In a game, the player wins if he rolls a 6 on a number cube (a dice). If the number cube is rolled 18 times, then what is the reasonable prediction for the number of UNSUCCESFUL rolls?

*NOTE: enter your answers as a number ONLY.

A container of beads contains: 8 red beads, 6 yellow beads, and 6 green beads. A bead will be drawn from the basket and replaced 60 times. What is a reasonable prediction for the number of times a green or red bead is drawn? *NOTE: enter your answers as a number ONLY.

A sample of the Ben & Jerry's employees took a survey on their favorite flavor of ice cream. The table shows how many employees voted for each flavor. What is the probability that an employee voted for Cookies and Cream?

• 35 / 125

• 35 / 730

• 35 / 19

• 14 / 35

Q1. What is the sum of 94 and 104?

• A) 94

• B) 104

• C) 204

• D) 224

A marble will be drawn from the bag and replaced 120 times.  What is a reasonable prediction for the number of times a red or yellow marble will be drawn? (7.6D-SS)

• 7

• 42

• 60

• 140

Olivia is conducting an experiment using a bag of marbles.  She reaches into the bag, draws a marble, records the result, and returns the marble to its bag.  She repeats this experiment 20 times.  Her results are shown in the table.

 

Based on these results, predict the number of times Olivia will draw a blue marble from the bag if she repeats the experiment 200 times. (TEKS 7.6C)

• 20

• 40

• 100

• 200

Alejandro rolls a die and flips a coin 20 times. The results are shown in the table.  If Alejandro rolls a die and flips a coin an additional 150 times, how many times should he expect to roll an odd number and have the coin land with the tail side facing up? (7.6C-SS)

• 4

• 90

• 25

• 30

A bag contains: - 4 red marbles - 6 blue marbles - 3 green marbles - 4 black marbles - 3 yellow marbles A marble will be drawn from the bag and replaced 100 times. What is a reasonable prediction for the number of times a green or black marble will be drawn? (7.6D-SS

• 50

• 35

• 45

• 14

A bag of fruit contains 3 apples, 2 oranges, 1 banana, and 4 pears.  Luis will randomly select two pieces of fruit one at a time from the bag and not put the fruit back. What is the probability that the first piece of fruit Luis selects will be a banana and the second piece of fruit will be an orange?  (7.6D-SS)

Caiden flipped three coins during a probability experiment. The outcomes of the first 30 trials are shown in the table.

Based on the information in the table, in how many of the next 120 trials will the outcome be exactly two of the coins showing heads? (7.6C-SS)

• 60

• 52

• 40

• 92