6 Math WS - Probability
6 Math WS - Probability
1. Zara puts one yellow ball , one red ball and two green balls in a bag. She
takes one ball from the bag without looking.
a) The probability of a red ball being pulled from the bag is _____ out of 4.
b) The probability of picking a yellow ball being pulled from the bag is ___
out of 4
c) The probability of picking a green ball being pulled from the bag is ____
out of 4 or ____%.
3. Keran hears that the chance of a coin landing heads up is equally likely as
the chance of it landing tails up. She does a probability experiment to see
whether she will get the same number of heads up as tails up when she flips
a coin multiple times.
These are her results:
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b) Does Keran’s experiment show that the coin is more likely to land on
head or tails up?
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4. Safia and Marcus have been investigating probability. They are taking shapes
out of bags without looking.
5. Kapil says that rolling 4 and rolling an odd number on an ordinary dice are
mutually exclusive.
Is Kapil correct?
What are mutually exclusive events?
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b) If you spin the spinner 50 times how many 2s would you expect to see?
______
b) One child is chosen at random for a lesson. What is the chance that:
i) The child is not boy and is under 13 years old?____ out of ____
ii) The child is a boy who is not under 13 years old? ___ out of ___
iv) The child is not under 13 years old? ___ out of ___
v) The child is not a boy who is under 13 years old? ___ out of ___
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These are 4 events that could occur when Lola takes a t-shirt.
Tick the pairs of events that are mutually exclusive for Lola’s set of t-shirts.