Making and Justifying Predictions
Use your knowledge of likelihood to make smart guesses, or predictions, about what will happen in an experiment. We will learn to explain our predictions using probability words.
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Use your knowledge of likelihood to make smart guesses, or predictions, about what will happen in an experiment. We will learn to explain our predictions using probability words.
Key Questions
- Justify your prediction for which colour is most likely to be spun on a spinner that is half blue, one quarter red, and one quarter yellow.
- Explain your prediction about the likelihood of rolling a number greater than 4 on a standard six-sided die.
- Compare the likelihood of drawing a vowel versus a consonant from a bag of letter tiles with all 26 letters.
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