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The vile vendor: questions

The vile vendor: questions

TLF ID L118

Use a vending machine to get a vile-flavoured drink such as cabbage, smelly sock or rusty nail. The machine serves a can of drink randomly from four slots. Work out the likelihood of getting each flavour. Then choose a matching probability word: impossible, unlikely, equal, likely or certain. Move on to filling the slots with drink flavours to match the given likelihood statements.

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Educational value
  • Explores the language of probability by encouraging students to answer a series of questions about the likelihood of a particular event.
  • Provides a printable activity that relates the language of chance to introductory concepts of probability.
Year level

2

Topics Probability Likelihood
Learning area
  • Mathematics

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