This interactivity invites you to make conjectures and explore probabilities of outcomes related to two independent events.
Six balls are shaken. You win if at least one red ball ends in a corner. What is the probability of winning?
Discs are flipped in the air. You win if all the faces show the same colour. What is the probability of winning?
Some people offer advice on how to win at games of chance, or how to influence probability in your favour. Can you decide whether advice is good or not?
A practical experiment which uses tree diagrams to help students understand the nature of questions in conditional probability.
All you need for this game is a pack of cards. While you play the game, think about strategies that will increase your chances of winning.
In how many different ways can I colour the five edges of a pentagon so that no two adjacent edges are the same colour?
When you throw two regular, six-faced dice you have more chance of getting one particular result than any other. What result would that be? Why is this?
Here are two games you can play. Which offers the better chance of winning?
