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What is the probability of spinning green or blue on the spinner? |
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Determining the probability of a coin landing heads up by actually tossing a coin several times is an example of _____. |
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theoretical probability |
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experimental probability |
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outcome probability |
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sample probability |
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The spinner below is spun and a number cube is tossed. Determine the number of outcomes. |
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36 |
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12 |
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6 |
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60 |
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A restaurant offers 6 appetizers, 4 salads, 8 entrees, and 5 desserts. Find the number of possible meals that include one item from each course. |
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11,520 |
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5760 |
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2880 |
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960 |
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A cooler contains 5 cans of each flavor of soft drink: cola, lemon-lime, grape, and root beer. Find the probability of one person randomly picking a cola, then another person randomly selecting root beer. |
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Five coins are tossed. How many outcomes are there? |
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32 |
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20 |
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16 |
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10 |
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The Mudville Heights High School football team has 8 plays from which to choose. On a certain drive, they had 6 plays. How many possible combinations of plays could they have used for that drive? |
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262,144 |
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48 |
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1,679,616 |
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20,161 |
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Your friend has 26 slips of paper, one with each letter of the alphabet on it, and you pick three slips at random, allowing your friend to replace them randomly in the stack. What is the probability that you will choose the letter 'd' the first time, the letter 'o' the second time, and the letter 'g' the third time? |
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Eight ______ is the product of all the counting numbers beginning with eight and counting backward to one. |
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outcome |
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compound event |
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permutation |
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factorial |
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Meghan owns 5 pairs of basketball shorts. If she wears a different pair every day for five days, how many different orders are there in which she could wear the shorts? |
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120 |
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24 |
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15 |
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60 |
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The Niles Park District has 140 children signed up to play Little League Baseball. The makeup of the league is shown in the table. If one child is picked at random, what is the probability that they are 9 or 11 years old? Write as a fraction in simplest form. |
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Which situation is a permutation? |
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The number of ways 8 students can finish first, second, or third place at the Math Olympiad. |
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The number of games it would take to start 5 different basketball players from a team of 10. |
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The number of ways each person can shake hands with the other 11 people in the room. |
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The number of ways you can choose 3 hot dog toppings from a total of 5. |
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Which situation is a combination? |
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The number of ways 3 books can be displayed in a store window. |
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The number of ways a coach can choose 3 co-captains for a soccer team. |
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The number of ways 50 people can line up to enter a concert hall. |
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The number of ways a committee can choose a president, vice-president, and treasurer. |
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The spinner below was spun 250 times and 5 came up 20 times. What is the experimental probability of spinning a 5? |
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