Probability
My report will be on probability. What is probability? Probability is a measure of how often a particular event will happen if something is done repeatedly.(596 Websters Dictionary)What are the chances that it will rain tomorrow? On television the weather reporter says, the chances that it will rain tomorrow are nine out of ten or nine in ten. This means that the probability of it raining tomorrow is very high. The weather reporter can never be certain because there is always a chance that something odd will happen.(Linn 1-3) What are the chances that a die will land on a six.? What are the chances that you will have the same birthday as someone else? What are the chances that the coin will land on heads? What are the chances that I pull out a red ball from a bag? These are all examples of probability. I will talk more about them, and about some other examples. The following paragraphs will use probability in different examples.(Srivastava 6-7) What are the chances of rolling a six on a single die? A die has six sides on it making the chances of rolling a six one out of six. What are the chances of rolling a six with two dice? On any one die there are six sides. Whatever happens two the first di
What are the chances of you being a boy or girl? When my mom said that she was going to have a baby my brothers and I were very mad. The next day my mom told us that there was a fifty percent chance of the baby being a girl and a fifty percent chance of the baby being a boy. We were all hoping for a boy, but my mom was hoping for a girl. Having a baby brother or sister has a fifty-fifty chance of being a boy or girl but is not tossing a coin. Having a baby brother or sister is figured out by heredity. Oh and by the way the baby came out to be a girl. We were all happy except for one of my brothers.(Cushman 9-12) marbles. There were one hundred five Red marbles, fifty-five Blue, and forty Black. John was the winner.(Cushman 43-50) Which hand am I holding the ball in? I took a cotton ball and dropped it on the floor behind me, and then I put my hand out in front of me and asked my friend, which hand. He pointed to the right nothing was there, then he pointed to the left nothing was there. He asked me let me see the floor and there it was. The chances of him finding out what hand it was in is one out of two(unless your an octopus)if I don't cheat again. If I cheat again the chances of him guessing which hand the ball is in, is nothing.(Cushman 7-8) In conclusion you can not determine any events that will happen in the future, because there is always a chance that something odd will happen.(Linn 39-40) Heads or tails? I want to play a video game but my brother wants to watch television and there was only one television in the house. So we took a quarter and I said heads or tails, my brother said tails and it landed up tails but I said that I want to play a video game, so lets make it best of three. So we tossed it again and it landed up tails. I wouldn't give up, so this time I said you toss the coin and he did. I said tails and it landed up heads. The chances of the
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