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ACARA AC9M9P03, Compare simple and compound events

Year 9 ยท Probability

Design and run repeated chance experiments and simulations to compare the probabilities of simple and related compound events.

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Teaching guide

What students learn

Design and run repeated chance experiments and simulations to compare the probabilities of simple and related compound events.

How to teach it

Order events from impossible to certain in everyday language, then quantify simple chances as fractions of the equally-likely outcomes.

Worked example
A bag has 5 counters. 5 are purple. Picking a purple counter is (impossible, unlikely, even chance, likely, certain):
Answer: certain
Why: all 5 are purple, so it always happens

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Watch out for

Assuming a rare-but-possible event is impossible, and thinking past results change the next independent outcome.

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