Mathematics / Year 10 / Probability

Curriculum content descriptions

use the language of “if .... then”, “given”, “of”, “knowing that” to describe and interpret situations involving conditional probability (AC9M10P01)

Elaborations
  • using two-way tables and Venn diagrams to understand conditional statements using the language of “if ... then ...”, “given”, “of”, “knowing that” and identifying common mistakes in interpreting such language
  • using arrays and tree diagrams to represent, interpret and compare probabilities of dependent and independent events
  • investigating how conditional probability is used in natural language processing tasks like text or image generation, language translation, data augmentation and recommendation systems
General capabilities
  • Critical and creative thinking Critical and Creative Thinking
  • Numeracy Numeracy
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Conditional probability

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