Sunday, January 23, 2011

Probability Question

Probability Question
Jasmine flips a coin to determine what kind of pizza she wants. The choices are Pepperoni and Bacon or Pepperoni and Mushroom.
A) what are all the possible outcomes
B) Show the space on a tree diagram or a chart

Answer to Joy's Probability Question

P(blue)


There are 2 blue marbles out of the possible 7.







Saturday, January 22, 2011

Answer to Suzzene's Question


Her question was: There were 5 chocolate bars in a box. 2 were milk chocolate, 2 were white chocolate and 1 was dark chocolate. Kevin has to pick one of the above. What is the probability of him getting a milk chocolate?
My answer: If Kevin can only pick 1 of the above out of the 5 chocolate bars and he picked the milk chocolate one then he would be getting one fifth out of the chocolate bars.

Probability Question







Liyanah picks the 2 green marbles out of the 10 and flips a coin.

a) what are all the possible outcomes?
b) show the sample space by using a chart or a tree diagram.

Friday, January 21, 2011

what is the p of flip a coin and rollin a die

Probability Question



Charles has 7 marbles in his pocket.




He takes 1 marble out of his pocket.

What is the probability that the color blue will be picked?

Probability Question



Johnny picked out of a bag with 5 chocolate bars. He had to pick one chocolate bar.

He also had to spin a spinner to determine how many times he would have to take a bite out of the chocolate bar.

Show all the possible outcomes using a chart or table. What is the sample space?