Practice Problems on Probability is the ultimate study guide and practice problem set for teaching your students probability. I don't know what it is about probability that really boggles their mind! This Practice Problems on Probability is a thorough review of all concepts covered in probability in 12 task cards to keep your students engaged and learning.

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These Practice Problems on Probability include:

• 12 Task Cards contain 35 questions to review simple, compound, and conditional probability.
• Students will use tree diagrams and Venn diagrams as well as tables to calculate probability.
• The task cards review mutually exclusive and independent events
• They include problems with and without replacement.

Suggested use of these practice problems on probability task cards:

• Print one set of task cards (Laminate if desired).
• Pair students together and set up a rotation so that each pair knows who they will hand off their task card to.
• Give each pair a task card and each student should have his/her own recording sheet to show work and record their answers.
• Time the students (three to four minutes) and then have them switch the card by passing it to another pair of students in the rotation.

You can also print a set per small group (of 3 or 4 students) and have them go through the task cards together. It’s completely up to you.

Practice Problems on Probability Objectives:

Students will be able to:

• Understand independence and conditional probability and use them to interpret data
• CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.HSS.CP.A.1

Describe events as subsets of a sample space (the set of outcomes) using characteristics (or categories) of the outcomes, or as unions, intersections, or complements of other events ("or," "and," "not").

• CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.HSS.CP.A.2

Understand that two events A and B are independent if the probability of A and B occurring together is the product of their probabilities, and use this characterization to determine if they are independent.

• CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.HSS.CP.A.3

Understand the conditional probability of A given B as P(A and B)/P(B), and interpret independence of A and B as saying that the conditional probability of A given B is the same as the probability of A, and the conditional probability of B given A is the same as the probability of B.

• CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.HSS.CP.A.4

Construct and interpret two-way frequency tables of data when two categories are associated with each object being classified. Use the two-way table as a sample space to decide if events are independent and to approximate conditional probabilities.

• CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.HSS.CP.A.5

Recognize and explain the concepts of conditional probability and independence in everyday language and everyday situations.

Use the rules of probability to compute probabilities of compound events.

• CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.HSS.CP.B.6

Find the conditional probability of A given B as the fraction of B's outcomes that also belong to A, and interpret the answer in terms of the model.

• CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.HSS.CP.B.7

Apply the Addition Rule, P(A or B) = P(A) + P(B) - P(A and B), and interpret the answer in terms of the model.

• CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.HSS.CP.B.8

(+) Apply the general Multiplication Rule in a uniform probability model, P(A and B) = P(A)P(B|A) = P(B)P(A|B), and interpret the answer in terms of the model.

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