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PROBABILITY AND DATA REVIEW JEOPARDY Answer Key

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VOCABULARY
#1 To make an educated guess. What is 'predict'?
#2 A result of an experiment. What is 'outcome'?
#3 Describes the likelihood that an event will occur. What is 'probability'?
#4 One player has a better chance of winning. What is 'unfair'?
#5 Outcomes that have the same probability of occurring. What is 'equally likely'?
OUTCOMES
#1 The following letters are in a bag: PROBABILITY, The chances of picking this letter are the same as picking a 'B'. What letter am I? What is the letter 'I'?
#2 On a spinner, there are 2 stars, 2 hearts and 1 square. What is the probability of picking a star? What is 2 out of 5?
#3 On a spinner, there are 3 blue spaces and 1 red space, What is the probability of spinning a green? What is 0 out of 4?
#4 On two pair of fair dice, what is the probability of tossing an odd number? What is '6 out of 12'?
#5 In the word MISSISSIPPI, what is the probability of picking a consonant? What is 7 out of 11?
MAKE A PREDICTION
#1 Based on the line plot, this number will most likely be picked next. What is '1' pet?
#2 Drew has a bag of 10 marbles. A tally chart showed that he picked a red marble 23 times and a blue marble 2 times. Would you predict there are 5 blue marbles and 5 red marbles? What is 'no'? The difference between the numbers picked is too great.
#3 Suppose you spin this spinner 10 times. Predict which color you are likely to land on most often.
#4 Z is this letter. What is the question? Which letter is least likely to be picked?
#5 Using the spinner and 2 players, name a rule that makes this game fair. What is 'if player 1 spins a red or yellow they move one space. If player 2 spins a blue or green, they move 1 space.
PROBABILITY PROBLEM SOLVING
#1 Suppose Alfred and Maria want to use this spinner to play a game. A way to make this game fair would be? What is 'color a green section red'?
#2 A game spinner has 4 equal sections. 2 blue, 1 green, and 1 yellow. Each player chooses a color and gets to move 1 space every time their color is spun. Is the game fair? What is 'no'. There is a greater chance of spinning a blue.
#3 The circle graph shows what 100 students said when asked what kind of pet they had. The 101st student is most likely to say this. What is 'no pet'?
#4 Given this spinner and the numbers 1, 2, 5, 6, 9, and one blank section. If this number were put in the blank section, it would make the game fair. What is 'any even number'?
#5 Libby and Owen are using a spinner to play a game. The spinner is divided into 8 equal sections. 4 red and 4 blue. Owen moves 1 space if he spins a red, and Libby moves one space is she spins a blue. Is the game fair or unfair? What is 'fair'?
GRAPHS AND DATA
#1 A pair of numbers that names a point on a grid is called this. What is an ordered pair?
#2 An ordered pair is (2,4) This number is on the 'y' axis. What is '4'?
#3 The name of a number that occurs most often in a set of data. What is mode?
#4 The number that represents the range of this data set : 2, 2, 4, 5, 6. What is '4'?
#5 The median of the following data set: 5, 4, 9 ,4, 8. What is '5'?
Final Question
When a meteorologist states that the chance of rain is 50%, the meteorologist is saying that it is equally likely to rain or not to rain. If the chance of rain rises to 80%, this word describes probability that it will rain. What is 'likely'?