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The document describes a sample task on probability that contains 4 questions to assess students' understanding of key probability concepts. The purpose is to test students' knowledge of defining probability, identifying certain and impossible events, and calculating probabilities using the ratio of favorable outcomes to total possible outcomes. After completing the task, students will gain insights into applying the probability formula and bridging theoretical probability with real-life examples.

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Sample Task Overview & Purpose

The document describes a sample task on probability that contains 4 questions to assess students' understanding of key probability concepts. The purpose is to test students' knowledge of defining probability, identifying certain and impossible events, and calculating probabilities using the ratio of favorable outcomes to total possible outcomes. After completing the task, students will gain insights into applying the probability formula and bridging theoretical probability with real-life examples.

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Sample Task Overview & Purpose:

Purpose of the task

This task was designed with four questions, two of which is knowledge type questions and

two of which is application type questions. The intention of these four questions is to enable me

to assess how well students were able to grasp the concept of probability, concept of the sure and

impossible events and the algorithm to determine the probability of an event occurring or not

occurring. The task would assess how well students can recall the list of characteristics of

probability and use these characteristics to define the term. It would also test their knowledge on

the certain and impossible events, that is, being able to identify such an event and recall the

respective value each event possesses. The task would determine how well students are able to

identify the number of times an event occurs or does not occur and the total number of possible

events. By being able to identify these two values accurately, the task would then seek to assess

how well students are able to compute the probability of an event occurring or not occurring.

Lastly, having tested all of the above factors, the task would also assess whether students are able

to bridge the gap between theoretical and practical probability (real- life applications).
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Insights about the concept students would gain after performing the task

For this task students will be required to recall their knowledge on the concept of

probability, algorithm to determine the probability of an event occurring or not occurring, as well

as, define the certain and impossible events and identify the certain and impossible events. At the

end of this assessment, students will gain insight about how to:

1. Define the term probability by using the characteristics of probability.

2. Identify a certain event and state the probability from its definition.

3. Identify an impossible event and state the probability from its definition.

4. Determine the probability of an event occurring/not occurring using the algorithm.

5. Apply probability to real-life by recalling elicited examples.


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SAMPLE TASK ON PROBABILITY

NAME: ______________________________________________________

1. Fill in the blanks using the following words: likely, proper, ratio, total, event
The probability of an _____(a)______occurring is the extent to which an event is
_____(b)_____to occur, measured by the _____(c)_______ of the favourable cases to the
______(e)_____number of cases possible, written as a ______(f)______ fraction.

2. State True (T) or False (F) for the following statements below:
a) The probability of winning the national lottery is 1. ____
b) A human’s subconscious evaluates probabilities before decisions are made. _____
c) The probability of the moon rising tomorrow at dawn is 0. ____
d) One is the greatest value a probability can possess. ____
e) Probability is not used in gambling. ______

3. a) A bag contains 84 marbles- 30 green, 9 blue, 27 yellow and the rest are red. If Harry were
to pick a marble from the bag without looking, what is the probability of him:
i) choosing a red marble

ii) not choosing a yellow marble

iii) choosing an orange marble


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iv) choosing either a green or blue marble

b) If 3 red, 4 blue and 16 green marbles were taken out of the bag, what is the probability now,
of Harry:
i) choosing a green, blue, red or yellow marble

ii) not choosing a blue marble

4) If a basic, fair die were tossed, what is the probability of


a) getting a number greater than 2?

b) getting a number less than 1?

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