Title: Probability Jeopardy
1Probability Jeopardy
2Spinners
Dice Marbles Coins
Ratios, Decimals, Percents
Probability Terms
Probability Situations
1
1
1
1
1
2
2
2
2
2
5
5
5
5
5
10
10
10
10
10
20
20
20
20
20
3What is the probability of landing on a number
under five?Certain, possible, or impossible?
1
2
4
3
4CertainAll numbers are under five.
5What is the probability of landing on an even
number?
636or three out of six
7Which spinner would you want to use if you wanted
to spin a 3?
8This one has more of a chance of landing on a 3.
9What shapes are least likely to land on?
10Yellow Pentagon andOrange Trapezoid
11Which spinner would you use if you wanted it to
be equally like to spin white and blue?
12Spinner 2
13If I roll two dice that are numbered from 1 6,
then what is the highest possible amount I could
roll?
1412
15What are the chances of drawing a blue marble
from the bag?
1627
17What type of marble has a three out of ten chance
of being drawn from the bag?
18White
19If I flipped a coin, what are the chances of
landing on heads?
2012orone out of two
21I am rolling two dice and adding their totals
together. One dice lands on a four. Is it
certain, possible, or impossible to roll an
amount higher than nine?
22PossibleIf I roll a six with the second dice,
then I would have a total higher than nine.
23If all the marbles are out of the bag, what
percent of the marbles are orange?
2425
25Use the tree diagram to solve. If you flip a
coin 3 times, what is the probability of getting
all heads as a ratio, decimal, and percent?
261/8.125 is about .1313
27If you roll 2 dice, what is the probability of
getting a sum of 2, 3, or 4 as a ratio, decimal,
and percent?
286/36 1/6.166666 about .1717
29What is the probability of not rolling a 3 as a
ratio, decimal, and percent?
302/8 1/4.2525
31What is the probability the block chosen is a
number as a ratio, decimal, and percent?
326/9 2/3.666666 .6767
33Probability is how likely it is that something
will happen. What the probability vocabulary we
learned this week that describes the probability
of something happening?
34 certain possible impossiblelikely
unlikely
35Which term means that there is more of a chance
of something happening than not happening?
36Likely
37This term means that something could never happen.
38impossible
39Name two probability terms that mean the opposite.
40certain impossible
41Compare the two terms likely and unlikely. How
are they alike and different?
42They both describe the term possible. Likely
means that there is more of a chance of something
happening than not happening. Unlikely means
there is more of a chance of something not
happening than happening.
43What are the chances that you can skip fourth
grade next year and go to fifth instead?
44impossible
45What are the chances that no one will be absent
today?
46likely
47Lawrence is the captain of his track team. The
team is deciding on a color and all eight members
wrote their choice down on equal size cards. If
Lawrence picks one card at random, what is the
probability that he will pick blue?
blue
blue
green
black
yellow
blue
black
red
483 out of 8 chanceor38
49If you have to land on an even number to get a
point. Then how many different results would
give you a point?
50There are four different ways to get a point.
You could land on a 2, 4, 6, or 8 to get a point.
51When a meteorologist states that the chance of
rain is 50, the meteorologist is saying that it
is equally likely to rain or not to rain. If
the chance of rain rises to 80, what is the
probability of it raining?
52likely