StatisticsYears 10–11

Probability

Calculate single and combined probabilities using two-way tables, sample spaces and tree diagrams

What you'll learn

  1. 1

    Imagine a bag of 3 red marbles and 1 blue marble. If you grab one without looking, which colour are you more likely to pull out?

  2. 2

    In the bag of 3 red 🟥 and 1 blue 🟦 marbles, which colour is MORE LIKELY?

  3. 3

    Drag marbles into the bag so it has 2 red and 2 blue. What is the probability of pulling a red marble now?

  4. 4

    Let's find the probability of pulling a blue marble from a bag of 3 red and 1 blue.

  5. 5

    Now try it: a bag has 5 red and 3 blue marbles. What is the probability of pulling a red marble?

  6. 6

    A spinner has 4 equal sections: red, blue, green, yellow. What is the probability of landing on green?

  7. 7

    If you flip a fair coin, what is the probability of getting heads?

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