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MATHEMATICS 8

PERFORMANCE TASK NO. 6


Name: ______________________________________________ Date: ______________
Section: Score:______________

PROBABILITY OF SIMPLE EVENT

When the Boy Tire Maker Married the Girl Tire


Maker, What Did Everyone Say?
Do each exercise and find your answer at the bottom of the page. Write
the letter of the exercise in the box above the answer.

1. Suppose you roll a regular 6-faced die.


How many equally likely outcomes are there?
How many possible outcomes when you roll a die once and
getting an even number?
If you roll the die once, what is the probability of getting 3?
A
If fair
you die
roll isthe
rolled once. what
die once, Whatisisthe
theprobability
probabilityofofrolling
rollingaa3?
number that is not 0?

2. A spinner is shown at the right for which each outcome is not equally likely.
If you spin the spinner once, what is the
probability that it will stop on A?
If you spin the spinner once, what is the
probability that it will stop on B?
How many possible outcomes are there in a
spinning wheel?
If you spin the spinner once, what is the
probability that it will stop on both A and B?

3. Find each probability if you choose one marble at random.


J P (black) P (striped)
J
U P (not black) W P (not white)
J
P (black or white) P (yellow)

A committee has 4 female and 7 male If you randomly pick a date in April,
members. If they randomly elect an officer how many equally likely outcomes
from among themselves, what is the
probability that the elected officer a female? are there?
The local weather forecaster said A magician asks you to pick a card,
that there is 70% chance of rain any card, from a standard deck of
tomorrow. What is the probability 52 cards. What is the probability of
that it will not rain tomorrow? picking an ace?

1 1 1 2 1 1 4 1 1
3 6 2 8 3 4 4 11 1 .3
2 2

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