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The worksheet focuses on understanding equally likely outcomes through various tasks involving spinners and dice rolls. It includes exercises for listing sample spaces, recognizing equally likely outcomes, and explaining the fairness of outcomes in games. The document emphasizes that each outcome has an equal chance of occurring in the given scenarios.

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Worksheet Questions

The worksheet focuses on understanding equally likely outcomes through various tasks involving spinners and dice rolls. It includes exercises for listing sample spaces, recognizing equally likely outcomes, and explaining the fairness of outcomes in games. The document emphasizes that each outcome has an equal chance of occurring in the given scenarios.

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Name: Worksheet

Equally likely outcomes

Task A: Listing possible outcomes


1) In each question a trial consists of a single spin of the spinner. Write down the
sample space for each trial.
a) b) c) d)
win lose
4 1 C A win lose lose win
3 2 lo
B win lose
se

2) In each question a trial consists of a single spin of the spinner. Use the sample
spaces to complete the spinner. There may be more than one possible answer.

a) b)

ξ = {A, B, C, D} ξ = {A, B, C, D}

Task B: Recognising when two outcomes are equally likely


1) Tick the spinners where the outcomes ‘win’ and ‘lose’ are equally likely.

win lose win win


lose lose
win lose lose win lose lose
win win
wi
win los
lose win
lose
n e los
e
win win win lose
wi win lose wi
lose lose lose lose
n lose
n win
win
win win win
wi
win los lose
lose wi spin los
win lose
lose
n e n again e
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Equally likely outcomes Worksheet

Task C: Recognising more than two equally likely outcomes


1) Complete the spinners to make the outcomes equally likely to happen.
a) ξ = {A, B} b) ξ = {win, lose} c) ξ = {even number, odd number}

d) ξ = {green, blue} e) ξ = {vowel, consonant} f) ξ = {A, B, C}

2) Aisha, Jun and Izzy are playing a game that involves rolling a regular 6-sided dice.

Aisha’s piece moves if the dice roll is 1 or 2.


Jun’s piece moves if the dice roll is 3 or 4.
Izzy’s piece moves if the dice roll is 5 or 6.

a) Izzy thinks that 6 is the most difficult number on the dice to roll.
Explain why this is incorrect.
Each number on the dice is equally likely to be rolled

b) The sample space to show the possible outcomes to each trial.


ξ = {Aisha moves, Jun moves, Izzy moves}

Explain why these outcomes are equally likely to happen.


Each player has the same number of outcomes which move their piece and each

outcome is equally likely to be rolled

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