Theoretical and Experimental Probability
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Objective
I can compare and contrast theoretical and experimental probability for a given event.
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Practice
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Explain the difference between theoretical and experimental probability in your own words.
Give an example of a situation where the theoretical probability of an event is easy to calculate. What is the theoretical probability in your example?
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Exit ticket
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“A standard six-sided die is rolled 30 times. The number "4" appears 8 times. What is the experimental probability of rolling a "4"? What is the theoretical probability of rolling a "4"? A coin is flipped 20 times. Heads appears 12 times. What is the experimental probability of flipping heads? What is the theoretical probability of flipping heads? A bag contains 5 marbles: 2 red and 3 blue. A marble is drawn, its color is recorded, and then it is placed back in the bag. This is done 40 times. A red marble is drawn 15 times. What is the experimental probability of drawing a red marble? What is the theoretical probability of drawing a red marble? ”
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