Probability Practice Name: _______________________
1. Starplex sold 67 tickets last night, 41 of those tickets were sold to girls. If there were 469 tickets sold, estimate
how many tickets would be sold to girls.
2. A restaurant offers many drink options and in one day they sold 50 drinks. Out of those 50 drinks, 15 of them
were apple juice. If they had sold 250 drinks, estimate how many would be apple juice.
3. Ms. G was playing Fortnite. She won 65 of the 70 games she played. If she played 210 games, estimate how
many she would win.
4. Kiera wanted to find the approximate number of historical books at the library she works at. She used the
computer to randomly take a sample of 80 books and found that 6 of them were considered historical books.
There are 21,360 books at this library. What is the best estimate of the amount of historical books at this
library?
Use the table to answer questions 5-7.
5. The table shows a survey that was conducted at Arlington Academy on children and their method of travel to
school. What is the sample size?
6. The table shows a survey that was conducted at Arlington Academy on children and their method of travel to
school. What is the population proportion for the number of children who traveled by bus?
7. The table shows a survey that was conducted at Arlington Academy on children and their method of travel to
school. The school has an enrollment of 105 students. Approximately how many children can be expected to
travel by bus?
Use the table to answer questions 8-10.
8. A survey was conducted on the number of pets students have. How
many students were surveyed to collect this data?
9. A survey was conducted on the number of pets students have. What
is the population mean of the number of pets students have?
10. A survey was conducted on the number of pets students have. What is the population proportion of the number
of students with two pets? (Write your answer as a decimal rounded to the hundredths place)
11. A cable company wanted to determine approximate ages of people in a town in order to modify its
programming. The company took a random sample of 50 people from the town and
found the following results.
There are 17,250 people in the town. What is the best estimate of the amount of
people that are between the ages of 21 and 40?
12. A random sample was taken at the World Bank in the UK of the amount of daily money withdrawn. What is the
population mean to the amount of money withdrawn?
13. A cafeteria manager randomly surveys 150 students to determine student preference of items on the lunch
menu. The results of the survey are shown in the table below. The number of students who prefer grilled
cheese is not shown.
Based on this survey sample, what is the population
proportion, in decimal form, of the students who prefer
grilled cheese? Round your answer to the nearest
thousandth.