Probability As Decimal Worksheet

Probability As Decimal Worksheet

Lesson 1

Problem:

What is probability of getting an ace if One card is picked up from a well shuffled pack of 52 cards?

Step 1:One card out of 52 cards can be selected in 52 different ways.

Step 2: Out of these 52 cases four cases will favor the event selecting an ace (Ace of Clubs, Ace of diamonds, Ace of Spades, and Ace of Hearts)

Step 3: Probability of selecting an Ace card

Number of cases favoring the event of selecting an ace

Total number of different ways in which we can select a card

Step 4: 4 / 52

Step 5:

1 / 13

Answer = 0.08

Try two practice problems:

Find the probability of the following.

(A) Picking a number less than 5 from 1-9.

(B) Picking a number less than 7 from 1 – 15.