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Probability and Chance Outcomes
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Probability and Chance Outcomes
🎲 Part 1: Understanding Probability
1. What does probability mean?
How fast something moves
The chance of something happening
How heavy something is
The size of an object
2. When you flip a coin, what are the possible outcomes?
Heads
Tails
Standing on edge
Landing in the grass
3. Which situation shows equally likely outcomes?
Picking from a bag with 5 red balls and 1 blue ball
Rolling a fair six-sided dice
Choosing from a deck with mostly red cards
Spinning a wheel with different sized sections
4. A bag contains 3 green marbles and 3 yellow marbles. Are the outcomes equally likely when picking one marble?
Yes, because there are equal numbers of each colour
No, because green is a different colour to yellow
Yes, but only if you close your eyes
No, because marbles are round
📝 Part 2: Listing Outcomes and Fair vs Unfair
5. List all possible outcomes when rolling a standard dice (1-6):
Possible outcomes: _____, _____, _____, _____, _____, _____
6. A spinner has 4 equal sections: red, blue, green, and yellow. List the possible outcomes:
7. Explain what makes a chance event "fair":
8. Look at this situation: A hat contains 10 pieces of paper with names - 8 have girls' names and 2 have boys' names.
a) Is this fair for choosing between boys and girls? __________
b) Explain your answer:
🎯 Part 3: Real-Life Probability
9. Give an example of a chance event from your everyday life:
10. Create your own probability scenario:
Describe a situation with equally likely outcomes:
List the possible outcomes:
11. Circle the situations that show bias (unfair outcomes):
A coin with heads on both sides
A fair dice with numbers 1-6
A lucky dip with mostly small prizes and one big prize
Drawing names from a hat with equal numbers of each name
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