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Probability
Jeopardy
Spinners
Dice
Marbles
Coins
Ratios,
Decimals,
Percents
$1
$1
$1
$1
$1
$2
$2
$2
$2
$2
$5
$5
$5
$5
$5
$10
$10
$10
$10
$10
$20
$20
$20
$20
$20
Probability Probability
Terms
Situations
What is the probability of
landing on a number under
five?
1 2
4 3
Certain, possible, or
impossible?
Certain
All numbers are under five.
What is the probability of
landing on an even number?
3
6
or
three out of six
Which spinner
would you want to
use if you wanted
to spin a 3?
This one has more of a chance of
landing on a 3.
What shapes are
least likely to
land on?
Yellow Pentagon
and
Orange Trapezoid
Which spinner would you
use if you wanted it to be
equally like to spin white
and blue?
Spinner 2
If I roll two dice that are
numbered from 1 – 6, then what
is the highest possible amount I
could roll?
12
What are the chances
of drawing a blue
marble from the bag?
2
7
What type of
marble has a
three out of
ten chance of
being drawn
from the
bag?
White
If I flipped a
coin, what are
the chances of
landing on
heads?
1
2
or
one out of two
I am rolling two dice and adding their totals together.
One dice lands on a four. Is it certain, possible, or
impossible to roll an amount higher than nine?
Possible:
If I roll a six with
the second dice,
then I would have a
total higher than
nine.
If all the marbles are out of the bag, what
percent of the marbles are orange?
25%
Use the tree diagram to solve. If you flip a coin 3
times, what is the probability of getting all heads
as a ratio, decimal, and percent?
1/8
.125 is about .13
13%
If you roll 2 dice, what is the
probability of getting a sum of 2, 3, or
4 as a ratio, decimal, and percent?
6/36= 1/6
.166666 about .17
17%
What is the probability of not rolling a 3 as a
ratio, decimal, and percent?
2/8 = 1/4
.25
25%
What is the probability the block chosen is a
number as a ratio, decimal, and percent?
6/9 = 2/3
.666666= .67
67%
Probability is how likely it is that something will
happen. What the probability vocabulary we
learned this week that describes the probability
of something happening?
certain
possible
likely
impossible
unlikely
Which term
means that
there is more of
a chance of
something
happening than
not happening?
Likely
This term means that
something could never
happen.
impossible
Name two probability
terms that mean the
opposite.
certain
&
impossible
Compare the two terms likely
and unlikely. How are they
alike and different?
They both describe the term possible.
Likely means that there is more of a
chance of something happening than
not happening.
Unlikely means there is more of a
chance of something not happening
than happening.
What are the chances that you
can skip fourth grade next year
and go to fifth instead?
impossibl
e
What are the chances that no
one will be absent today?
likely
Lawrence is the captain of his track
team. The team is deciding on a color
and all eight members wrote their
choice down on equal size cards. If
Lawrence picks one card at random,
what is the probability that he will pick
blue?
blue
blue
yellow
red
green
black
blue
black
3 out of 8 chance
or
3
8
If you have to land on an
even number to get a point.
Then how many different
results would give you a
point?
There are four different ways to
get a point. You could land on a
2, 4, 6, or 8 to get a point.
When a meteorologist states that the
chance of rain is 50%, the meteorologist
is saying that it is equally likely to rain or
not to rain.
If the chance of rain rises to 80%, what is
the probability of it raining?
likely