Experimental Vs. Theoretical Probability
b. Joan picks a random counter out of a bag 
    10 times, and she got a yellow counter 
    7 times. What is the experimental
    probability of picking a yellow?
a.
What is the theoretical probability of picking a yellow counter in simplest form?
Sean is doing an experiment to see how many tails 
he can get when flipping a coin.
Trial
2
1
3
4
5
6
Outcome
Heads
Tails
Tails
Heads
Tails
Tails
b. What is the experimental 
probabilty of getting tails? 
(in simplest form)
a. What is the theoretical 
probability of getting tails?
How many times would he expect to get the color red
if he did 30 spins?
6 times
18 times
10 times
60 times
Michael spins a spinner 10 times
He gets the color red 6 times.
What is the experimental probability of getting blue?
Results from choosing a counter 20 times
Green
10
Yellow
3
Blue
7
Diana completes an experiment of spinning athree-colored spinner 15 times. She expected to get aprobability of 1/3 for each color, but her numberswere really off. She got 0% probability for red, 60% for green, and 40% for blue. 
How could she get her experimental probability closer to her theoretical probability?
She should complete more trials.
She could spin a different spinner.
She needs to dice instead.
She needs to spin fewer times.
the number 7 will appear more than the number 1.
the theoretical probability is always less than the
experimental probability
the more times the cube is rolled, the closer the
experimental probability gets to the theoretical
probability
the theoretical probability is always greater than
the experimental probability.
Which of the following statements is TRUE?

When rolling a number cube...
Theoretical Probability
Mr. Whatley rolled a fair number cube 50 times.  The
number 4 came up 10 times.  Calculate the theoretical & experimental probabilities of rolling a 4 in simplest form.
Experimental Probability
Anthony is going to spin the 6-sectioned spinner below to see if he really will get the colorYellow 1/6 of the time. 
How many times should he spin the spinner for the outcome of his experiment to best match his theory?
60 spins
6 spins
600 spins
1 spin
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