Bell Ringer January 26, 2015School Day 101

Daily Decimal (DD):1. What is the School Day to the Total days in the

School Year as a Percent rounded to nearest hundredth?

2. A dog catches 8 out of 14 flying disks thrown. What is the experimental probability that it will catch the

next one?

3. If Ted popped 8 balloons out of 12 tries, what is the experimental probability that he will pop the next

balloon?

Homework:Create Your Own Menu WS

Clear Target – I will be able to determine all possible combinations from an event.

Composition Notebook

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Unit 9 and Highlight

Add 9.A: “FCP Discovery”

(2 pages)

Add 9.B: “FCP Diagram Notes”

(2 pages)

Add 9.C: “Light Bulb”

Light BulbWhat I know about probability.

 When using the Fundamental Counting Principle, we

multiply the number of options in each choice together.  All

possible outcomes of an experiment is the sample

space.

Practice Problems1) Enrique tosses a coin and spins the spinner at right. What are all the possible

outcomes? How many outcomes are in the sample space?

Practice Problems2) An ice cream stand offers cake cones, waffle cones, or

cups to hold ice cream. You can get vanilla, chocolate,

strawberry, pistachio, or coffee flavored ice cream. If you order a single scoop, what are all the possible options,

you have?

Practice Problems3) A game includes a number

cube and spinner divided into 4

equal sectors. Each player

rolls the number cube and spins

the spinner. How many outcomes

are possible?

Practice Problems4) At noon, Aretha can watch a football game, a basketball game, or a documentary about

horses on TV. At 3:00, she can watch a different football

game, a movie, or a concert. What are all the possible

outcomes?

Practice Problems5) For breakfast, Clarissa can

choose from oatmeal, cornflakes, or scrambled eggs.

She can drink milk, orange juice, apple juice, or hot chocolate. What are all

possible outcomes?

Practice Problems6) A pizza shop offers thick crust, thin crust, or stuffed crust. The choices of toppings

are pepperoni, cheese, hamburger, Italian sausage, Canadian bacon, onions, bell

peppers, mushrooms, and pineapple. How many different one-topping pizzas could you

order?

Write About It7) Explain how to determine the size of the sample space when you toss three number cubes at

the same time.

8) Suppose you flip a penny, a nickel, and a dime at the same time. What are all the possible

outcomes?

Exit SlipViking Burger offers five

different types of burgers, two different types of buns, and two

different types of cheese.   

Based on what we did in class, does Viking Burger or Mighty

Eagle Cafe offer more options?