Mathematics / Year 9 / Statistics and Probability / Chance

Curriculum content descriptions

List all outcomes for two-step chance experiments, both with and without replacement using tree diagrams or arrays. Assign probabilities to outcomes and determine probabilities for events (ACMSP225)

Elaborations
  • conducting two-step chance experiments
  • using systematic methods to list outcomes of experiments and to list outcomes favourable to an event
  • comparing experiments which differ only by being undertaken with replacement or without replacement
General capabilities
  • Numeracy Numeracy
ScOT terms

Probability,  Sampling (Statistics)

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