Possible Outcomes and Probability

What is an event that will happen or has a probability of 1?

• theoretical

• probability

• mutually exclusive

• certain

an event with a probability of zero

• impossible

• mutually exclusive

• outcome

• outcome

What is the probability of spinning and landing on green?

• 3/12

• 1/4

• 3/4

• 9/12

What is the experimental probability of not landing on blue?

• 25/25

• 7/8

• 1/8

• 0/25

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

• 30%

• 3/9

• 1/4

• 25%

The chance of an event happening is called... 

• Event

• Result

• Outcome

• Probability

The set of all the possible outcomes is called:

• Result

• Sample Space

• Probability

• Event

List the possible outcomes in the sample space for flipping a coin.  

• heads

• tails

• heads and tails

• 1,2,3,4,5,6

How many outcomes when choosing a vowel (a, e, i, o, u) and then a number (2 or 6)?

• 7

• 5

• 10

• 12

Neil tossed a 6-sided die 90 times. The results of his tosses are recorded in the table below: Which number has the experimental probability of 13/90?

• 1

• 2

• 3

• 4

• 5