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Probability Descriptions and Calculations

This document provides examples for describing probability using words, fractions, percentages, and decimals. It includes: 1. A probability scale with the words likely, impossible, even chance, certain, unlikely placed in the correct locations. 2. An incomplete table to fill in the probability of various events using words, fractions, percentages, and decimals. 3. An incomplete table to calculate the probability of spinning a 1 on different spinners.

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Probability Descriptions and Calculations

This document provides examples for describing probability using words, fractions, percentages, and decimals. It includes: 1. A probability scale with the words likely, impossible, even chance, certain, unlikely placed in the correct locations. 2. An incomplete table to fill in the probability of various events using words, fractions, percentages, and decimals. 3. An incomplete table to calculate the probability of spinning a 1 on different spinners.

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Using Words and Numbers to Describe Probability

You may use a calculator to work out fractions, decimals and percentages.

1. Write each of the following words in the correct place on the probability scale: likely, impossible,
even chance, certain, unlikely.

  

0 1
 

2. Fill in the gaps in the table below:

Probability
Event Percentage Decimal
Word Description Fraction
(nearest %) (2d.p.)
I pick the letter R when I
choose, at random, a letter
from the word “Banana”.
I roll a 6 when I roll a dice.
I take a red sweet when I
choose a sweet at random
from a bag containing 5 red
sweets and 10 green sweets.
When I toss a coin, it lands
with the head upwards.
I roll an odd number when
I roll a dice.
I pick a consonant when I
pick a letter at random from
the word “Apple”.
I win a prize when I buy one
ticket in a raffle where all
the numbers from 1 to 200
are in the draw and those
ending in 0 deliver a prize.

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Using Words and Numbers to Describe Probability

3. Complete the table to show the probability of spinning a 1 on each of the spinners shown:

a. b. c. d.
1
1 5 2
1 2 2 4
3 2
4 3

3 4
4 3 3 2 8 6
3 2 5
1

Probability
Spinner Percentage Decimal
Word Description Fraction
(nearest %) (2d.p.)
a.

b.

c.

d.

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