Carnival Game Tycoon Lecture Notes: Lesson 1						Name:__________________
Delta College STEM Explorer									Hour:______

I.	Introduction to Probability
Defined:  Probability is the study of ____________________.
A.	Early Mathematicians: _____________ and _____________.
1.	Desired to use concepts of _________________ to make ___________. 
2.	Probability is represented as a _______________ and a _______________.
3.	_____= impossible, _____=certainty
B.	Random Events
1.	 A ______________  __________________ is any activity with ___ or more possible outcomes in which there is ______________________ about which will occur.
2.	_____ basic chance experiments:  a __________ flip, a _________ of a die, and picking a ___________ from a deck.

•	 Activity 1:  Coin Flip

3.	 Sample Space:  A set of _____ possible _______________ in a chance experiment.
a.	Coin Flip:

b.	 Rolling a Die:

c.	 Card Draw:

4.	 _____________:  a _____________ of outcomes from a sample space.
a.	 Ex. ____________ on a coin flip.
b.	Ex. Rolling a ____ on a die.
c.	Ex. Picking a __________  ___________ from a full deck of cards.

II.	Calculating ______________  ___________________.
A. If all the outcomes in a sample space (S) are ________________  _________________, then the probability (P) of the event E is:

		________________________________

B. Examples:  Probability of:

	1.  tails on a coin flip:

	2.  6 on a coin roll:

	3.  Ace of Spades on a card draw:

	4.  1 or 2 on a die roll:

	5.  Face card on a draw:

	Remember:  The ______________ we get to ____, the higher the likelihood of the event.