Your teacher will give you 4 spinners. Make sure each person in your group uses a different spinner.
- Spin your spinner 10 times, and record your outcomes.
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Did you get all of the different possible outcomes in your 10 spins?
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What fraction of your 10 spins landed on the number 3?
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Next, share your outcomes with your group, and record their outcomes.
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Outcomes for Spinner A:
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Outcomes for Spinner B:
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Outcomes for Spinner C:
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Outcomes for Spinner D:
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- Do any of the spinners have the same sample space? If so, do they have the same probabilities for each number to result?
- For each spinner, what is the probability that it lands on the number 3? Explain or show your reasoning.
- For each spinner, what is the probability that it lands on something other than the number 3? Explain or show your reasoning.
- Noah put Spinner D on top of his closed binder and spun it 10 times. It never landed on the number 1. How might you explain why this happened?
- Han put Spinner C on the floor and spun it 10 times. It never landed on the number 3, so he says that the probability of getting a 3 is 0. How might you explain why this happened?