MathsYears 12–13Statistics

Probability

Apply laws of probability including conditional probability, tree diagrams and Venn diagrams

What you'll learn

  1. 1

    Probability tells us how likely something is to happen, from 0 (impossible) to 1 (certain).

  2. 2

    What is the probability of rolling a 7 on a standard six-sided die?

  3. 3

    Spin the spinner – it has 4 equal sections: red, blue, green, yellow. What's the probability of landing on blue?

  4. 4

    A bag has 3 red marbles and 2 blue marbles. What's the probability of picking a red marble?

  5. 5

    From the same bag (3 red, 2 blue), what's the probability of picking a blue marble?

  6. 6

    A bag has 6 sweets: 2 strawberry, 3 orange, 1 lime. Drag to show the probability of picking a strawberry sweet.

  7. 7

    A bag has 4 red, 3 blue, and 3 green marbles. What's the probability of picking a green marble?

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