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Grade 5 Probability Practice Workbook

The document is a probability practice worksheet for Grade 5 students, focusing on describing likelihood, predicting outcomes, and using fractions and percentages to express probability. It includes various sections with questions related to spinners, bags of balls, coin flips, and random experiments. The objective is to help students understand and apply basic probability concepts through practical examples.

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Grade 5 Probability Practice Workbook

The document is a probability practice worksheet for Grade 5 students, focusing on describing likelihood, predicting outcomes, and using fractions and percentages to express probability. It includes various sections with questions related to spinners, bags of balls, coin flips, and random experiments. The objective is to help students understand and apply basic probability concepts through practical examples.

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📘 Cambridge Primary Math – Probability Practice (Grade 5)

Name: ____________________ Date: ____________________

📌 Learning Objectives:

 Describe likelihood using words like certain, likely, unlikely, impossible.


 Predict outcomes and use probability to describe them.
 Use simple fractions and percentages to express probability.

🟦 Section A: Describing Likelihood

1. Look at the spinner below:

[Image: Spinner with 3 red, 2 yellow, and 1 blue section]

a. What is the most likely colour to land on? _______________


b. Is it possible to land on blue? Circle one: Yes / No
c. What is the chance of landing on yellow? _______________

2. Tick (✔) the best word to describe each event:

Event Certain Likely Unlikely Impossible


The sun will rise tomorrow
It will snow in the desert
You will roll an even number on a dice
A fish will bark like a dog

🟦 Section B: Predicting Outcomes

3. A bag contains these balls:

[Image: Bag with 3 green, 4 yellow, 3 red balls]

a. What is the total number of balls? _______________


b. What is the chance of picking a red ball? Write as a fraction: ___________
c. Is it more likely to pick yellow or green? _______________

4. Sam flips a coin 10 times and gets:


Heads: 4 times Tails: 6 times

If he flips again, what is the most likely outcome? _____________________


Why? ______________________________________________________

🟦 Section C: Challenge – Practice with a Net (50% Chance)

5. Look at the spinner below, which is part of a board game.

[Image: Spinner with two equal sections: one says "Move", the other says "Miss Turn"]
a. What is the probability of landing on "Move"? ___________ (as a fraction)
b. Is the chance of each outcome equal? Circle one: Yes / No
c. How many times out of 10 spins would you expect to land on “Miss Turn”?
__________

Q.
Rex has four cards numbered 1 to 4. Nina has five cards numbered 1 to 5. Alex
wants to take a number 3 card. He cannot look at the cards. Is he more likely
to take a 3 card from rex or from Nina?

Section D: Random Experiments

6. Each student in a class draws one slip from a box containing the letters A, B, and C
repeated multiple times (total of 30 slips: 10 A, 10 B, 10 C).
a) What is the probability of drawing a 'B'?
b) If 15 students have already drawn letters, how many of each letter do you expect to
have been drawn?
c) Is this a fair experiment? Why or why not?
7. You perform the following experiment: Toss a coin and then roll a die.
a) How many possible outcomes are there?
b) What is the probability of getting "Heads" and then a 6?

Common questions

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The probability of picking a red ball is 3 out of 10, which can be expressed as the fraction 3/10.

The most likely outcome remains either heads or tails, each with a probability of 1/2, because each flip of the coin is an independent event with an expected equal probability for heads and tails. The previous outcomes do not affect the probability of the subsequent flip.

It is more likely for Alex to draw a 3 from Nina because her deck contains a wider range of numbers (1 to 5) making each different number less likely compared to Rex's deck (1 to 4). Yet, since each deck has only one card numbered 3, the probability of drawing a 3 from either pack remains statistically similar without repetition.

The probability of landing on 'Move' is 1/2 since there are only two equal sections on the spinner.

We expect 5 of each letter to have been drawn since initially, the probability is equal for each letter (A, B, C), making them uniformly distributed. Therefore, 15 total draws divided evenly among the three letters would suggest 5 per letter.

Yes, it is possible to land on blue, even though it is the least likely outcome since there is 1 blue section on the spinner. Any occurrence with a non-zero probability is possible.

The most likely color to land on is red, as there are more red sections (3) than yellow (2) or blue (1)

The probability of drawing a 'B' is 10/30, which simplifies to 1/3. This is because there are 10 'B' slips out of 30 total slips.

There are 12 possible outcomes. The coin toss has 2 possible outcomes (Heads, Tails), and the die roll has 6 possible outcomes (1-6). Thus, the combined experiment has 2 x 6 = 12 possible outcomes.

The probability of getting 'Heads' followed by rolling a 6 is 1/12. The probability of Heads is 1/2 and the probability of rolling a 6 is 1/6. Therefore, the combined probability is 1/2 x 1/6 = 1/12.

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