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Grade 3 Word Problems Probability

This document contains a worksheet on data and probability word problems for 3rd grade students. It includes 10 problems asking students to calculate probabilities of outcomes from events like rolling dice, flipping coins, and spinning spinners. It also asks students to analyze whether scenarios involve likely, unlikely, or fair outcomes. The accompanying answer key provides the probability calculations and explanations for each problem.

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Grade 3 Word Problems Probability

This document contains a worksheet on data and probability word problems for 3rd grade students. It includes 10 problems asking students to calculate probabilities of outcomes from events like rolling dice, flipping coins, and spinning spinners. It also asks students to analyze whether scenarios involve likely, unlikely, or fair outcomes. The accompanying answer key provides the probability calculations and explanations for each problem.

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  • Data/Probability Word Problems
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Data/Probability

Word Problems Name:________________________________

3rd Grade

1. You have 4 colors on your spinner, orange, blue red and yellow. What
are the chances it will land on red?

2. What is the probability of choosing a vowel (count y as a vowel) from a


bag of letters containing the alphabet?

3. If you roll a number cube (dice), what is your chance of getting a 6?


Explain.

4. Write 4 statements about a dice using impossible, unlikely, likely, certain.

5. Predict the outcome of tossing a coin 10 times. Toss the coin and see
how your prediction matched the actual outcome.

6. If you flipped a coin, what are the chances it will land on heads?
Tails? Explain.

7. A dice (number cube) has the numbers 1,2,3,4,5 and 6. What are the
chances on landing on an odd number ? Even number? Explain.

8. Look at the spinner. What are the chances of taking


1 3
1 spin and landing on 1? 2? 3? Explain.
2 1

9. If the spinner above was a game and 3 people each got a point when
landing on their number would this game be fair ? Explain.

10. For the spinner above, write three statements using the words likely or
unlikely.

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Word Problem Answers
3rd Grade

1. 1 out of 4 chances or 1/4

2. 6 out of 26 or 6/26

3. 1 out of 6 or 1/6—explanations will vary.

4. Answers will vary however, should be something like: It is impossible to


roll a 7, it is unlikely to roll 4 of the same number in a row, it is likely to roll
a 1,2,3 or 4, it is certain to roll a number between 1-6.

5. Students should realize that each time they toss the coin there is still a
1/2 chance of getting heads or tails.

6. 1 out of 2 or 1/2 because the chances of either are equal.

7. 1 out of 2 or 1/2 because the chances are equal as there are 3 odd
numbers and 3 even numbers.

8. Landing on 1 would be 1/2 (2/4), landing on 2 would be 1/4, landing on


3 would be 1/4.

9. The person with number 1 has better chances of winning, the game
would not be fair.

10. Answers will vary, some examples: It isn’t likely to spin twice and land on
1. It is likely to land on 1 when spinning once.

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