PROBABILITY

BASIC TERMS:

• Experiment
Is an activity that you can do.
• Outcome
Is the result of the experiment.
• Sample Space
Is the set of possible outcomes of an experiment.
• Sample Point
Is the individual possible outcome.
• Event
What is expected to come out when making an experiment.

𝑁𝑢𝑚𝑏𝑒𝑟 𝑜𝑓 𝑓𝑎𝑣𝑜𝑟𝑎𝑏𝑙𝑒 𝑜𝑢𝑡𝑐𝑜𝑚𝑒𝑠

𝑃 (𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑛𝑡)=
𝑁𝑢𝑚𝑏𝑒𝑟 𝑜𝑓 𝑎𝑙𝑙 𝑝𝑜𝑠𝑖𝑏𝑙𝑒 𝑜𝑢𝑡𝑐𝑜𝑚𝑒
EXAMPLE:

• What is the probability of getting a head when tossing a coin?

• What is the event of the problem?

• How many head thus it have when we toss a coin?

• Therefore, the probability of getting head when tossing a coin is?

ACTIVITY:

1. what is the probability of choosing a male in your group?

• Number of Male:
• Number of Group member:
P(male)=
2. What is the probability of choosing a person with age of 21 in your group?
• Number of person with age of 21:
• Number of Group member:

P(Person with age 21)=

ACTIVITY:

3. Mike is choosing a pair of clothes for a party. What is the probability that he will choose
a pair with similar color if he has the following collection?
Color of shirt: Blue, Yellow, White and Orange
Color of pants: Blue, Green and Yellow
Number of pair with similar color:
Number of pair:
P(similar color)=
 Shirt

Blue Yellow White Orange

Blue

Green
Pants

Yellow
EVALUATION

DIRECTION: Copy and answer the following on a ½ piece of paper.

1. Define probability in your own understanding. 5points.
II. PROBLEM SOLVING
1. Earl Darenz is asked to choose a day from a week. What is the probability of choosing a day
which starts with S?
2. Choosing a month from a, what is the probability of selecting a month with 31 day?
3. If a letter is chosen at random from the word PERSEVERANCE, what is the probability that
the letter chosen is E?
4. If one letter is chosen at random from the word TRUSTWORTHY, what is the probability
that the letter chosen is a consonant?
5. The sides of a cube are numbered 11 to 16. If Jan Renz rolled the cube once, what is the
probability of rolling a composite number.
ASSIGNMENT:

DIRECTION: Copy and answer the following on a ½ piece of paper.

1. A box contains 7 red balls, 5orange balls, 6 green balls,4 yellow balls, and 3 blue balls.
What is the probability of drawing out an orange ball?
2. Of the 45 students in a class, 25 are boys. If a student is selected at random for a field
trip, what is the probability of selecting a girl.