PRIMARY 5 MATH SEMESTER 1

UNIT 8

Name : _______________________________________ Date : _____________________________________

1. Draw arrows to show the likelihood of the following events happening.

a. When you flip a coin it will land on heads.

b. It will be sunny today.

c. I meet Mr. Jokowi today.

d. I will breathe.

e. I will win a lottery.

2. Arun has a bag with 8 balls. He has 4 yellow balls, 2 red balls, a blue ball and a green ball.

a. The likelihood of Arun taking a yellow ball is _______________.

b. The likelihood of Arun taking a white ball is _______________.

c. The likelihood of Arun taking red ball or yellow balls is _______________.

d. It is equally likely that Arun will take __________ ball and __________ ball.

e. ____________ ball is most likely to be taken.

3. Copy this likelihood scale. Look at this spinner.

Mark the likelihood of each of these outcomes on your likelihood scale.

A. Scoring an even number. 2

B. Scoring an odd number.

6 4
C. Scoring less than 5.

D. Scoring more than 9. 8

E. Scoring a number greater than 6.

4. Sofia has a group of letters in a words.

A D A B E D D E B F D E

Answer the statement below.

a. There are ______ letters.

b. ________ of the letters are letter D.

c. The chance of taking a letter F is unlikely/even chance/certain.

d. It is equally likely that Sofia will take letter __________ or ___________.

e. Letter ________ is the most likely to be taken.

f. It is impossible to take letter G because

5. Draw a ring around the spinners where you are equally likely to spin a 1 or a 2.

6. Look at the shapes in this bag.

Imagine you take a shape out of the bag.

Write True or False for each statement.

a. It is likely that the shape is square.

b. It is impossible that the shape will be hexagon.

c. There is an even chance of taking a rectangle.

d. Taking a square and a triangle is equally likely.

e. Taking a circle is more likely than taking a pentagon.

f. Taking a rectangle is less likely than taking a square.

7. Use this space to design and color or label a spinner that matches these statements.

• It is not equally likely that the spinner will land on green or blue.

• It is not impossible for the spinner to land on orange.

• There is an even chance of spinning red.

• It is equally likely that the spinner will land on yellow or brown.

• It is unlikely that the spinner will land on pink.

8. Marcus says that the likelihood of this spinner landing on 1 is an even chance because all the
numbers are equally likely. Marcus has made a mistake. What is wrong with Marcus's
statement?

Explain your answer.

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9 Marcus says, ' There is an even chance of flipping a head. My first flip was head so my next
flip must be a tail.' Is Marcus correct? Explain your answer.

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10. Marcus has collected seeds to grow. He knows 1 seed out of every 3 does not grow. He
uses this spinner to stimulate how many of his seeds will grow into plants. He sounds one for
each seed he has.

Here are Marcus's results. grow

(green)
Green Green Red Red Green

Red Green Green Red Red does not

grow
grow
(green)
Green Red Green Green Green (red)

A. How many seeds does Marcus have?

B. How many of Marcus's seeds grow in the stimulation?

C. How many of Marcus's seeds do not grow in the stimulation?

D. Use probability language to describe the likelihood that a seed will grow.

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11. Draw symbols on each of these 10 cards so that:

• there is a likely chance of choosing a card with a circle on it.

• taking a card with a square or a card with a triangle are equally likely.

Write two sentences about the outcomes of your experiments.

12. Rachel programmed a spreadsheet to stimulate 50 coin flips. The spreadsheet creates
random numbers from 1 to 3. Rachel says, 'The odd numbers represent coin flips that land on
heads. The even numbers represent coin flips that land on tails.'

Rachel's spreadsheet list looks like this.

a. How many even numbers are in Rachel's list?

b. How many odd numbers are in Rachel's list?

c. Explain what is wrong with Rachel's simulation.

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d. Suggest a better way to stimulate the coin flips using random numbers.

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13. There are five shapes in a bag.

Arun took a shape out of the bag, looked at it and put is back into the bag. He did this eight
times. These are the shapes he saw.

A. Write true or false for each statement.

i. There was at least one sphere in the bag.

ii. There was definitely not a triangular prism in the bag.

iii. There might be more than one cube in the bag.

iv. There is definitely only one cylinder in the bag.

B. Sketch the five shapes that you predict might be in the bag.

C. Explain why you chose those five shapes for your prediction.

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