WorksheetsNOVA Special Prediction by the Numbers
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 6mins
The special Prediction by the Numbers is about which mathematical field?
Algebra
Geometry
Trigonometry
Probability
Which of the following mathematicians was NOT talked about in the video?
Pythagoras
Fermat
Pascal
Bayes
Which of the following was one of the contests going on at the carnival?
Throwing a ball to knock over bottles
Tyring to get a ring around a peg
Guessing the number of jelly beans in a jar
Spinning a wheel to win a prize
What does the "Wisdom of the crowd" suggest?
Individual answers are better than the average of all guesses
The average of guesses of a large group can be more accurate than individual guesses
People are bad at making predictions
Mathematicians give out IQ tests to see how smart people in a crowd are.
Which of the following was NOT an example used to talk about the law of large numbers?
Flipping a coin numerous times
Calculating the shooting percentage of basketball players
A roulette wheel has 2 green spots, insuring the casino has better odds to win than the gamblers
1,000,000 is a big number
In the milk into tea or tea into milk scenario discussed, how many different combinations of the 8 cups were there?
1
8
70
100
What major area of the United States was the portion about rescuing a lost person at sea take place in?
New York City
Boston
Chicago
Los Angeles
Which baseball team was talked about in the sports analytics section of the film?
Boston Red Sox
New York Yankees
Oakland Athletics
Toronto Blue Jays
Which of the following probability topics was discussed in the film?
Lottery
Machine Learning
Monty's Problem
Card Sharks
The work of which two mathematicians led to the development of modern day probability theory?
Pascal and Fermat
Pythagoras and Euclid
Einstein and Newton
Gauss and Fibonacci
