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Friday, January 21, 2011

probability question

What are the different possible answers you can get when you spin a four sided spinner with the colours blue,red,green,and purple and roll a regular die?

Wednesday, January 19, 2011

Probability

Probability is the likelihood or the chance of an event happening. We determine prorobability by making a fraction.



favourable outcomes

______________



possible outcomes



flipping a coin heads

_______________

calling heads or tails




Probability can be expressed, written, using fractions, ratios, and percents.

1

_ , 1:2, 50%

2

Out come is one probable result of a probability experiment.

Favorable outcomes is a successful outcome in a probabilty experament.

p(outcome) is short for saying probability of something happening.

Eg.p(5) When rolling a die.

here is a link to help you with probability.

http://www.ixl.com/math/practice/grade-3-certain-probable-unlikely-impossible

Tuesday, November 2, 2010

Dividing decimals using estimation

today in class we were talking about using estimation to devide decimals.


we did a question like this


for your class party you have to bring cup cakes. Cup cakes cost 30 cents each. Is ten dollars enough to buy 1 cup cake per person in your class? estimate then calculate.


how you answer the question is that u round the 30 cents either up or down to a friendly number with 10.


10.00 divided by 0.50=20


10.00 divided by 0.25=40


so the answer is between th numbers 20 and 40


when u calculate it you get

10.00 divided by 0.30=33


that would not be enough for our class



the next thing we did was we did another question like this


you and 3 of your friends buy a 1.36 liter jug of juice the 4 of u share the juice evenly. how much did each person get?


how u answer this one is the same. round the 1.36 to a number friendly with 4


1.60 divided by 4=0.4

1.20 divided by 4=0.3


so the answer is between 0.4 and 0.3

when u calculate u get 0.34 per person.


for the next question we used hundereds grids that look like these






















how many small bottles of water (0.295L) will fit into a big bottle of water (1.89L)

u change 1.89 to 1.80 and 0.295 to 0.3
so 1.80 divided by 0.3= 0.6
the answer would be about 6 small bottles of water would fit in a big bottle of water
if u calculate th answer would be 6.4


For home work we had to do a and b of a question. estimate

a) 40.5 divided by 5=8.1
u change 40.5 to 40 and then divide by 5
40 divided by 5=8
the real answer is 8.1

b) 57.9 divided by 3=19.3
u change 57.9 to 60 then divide by 3
60 divided by 3=20
the real answer is 19.3


here is a link that can help u divide decimals


http://www.gamequarium.com/division.html

thank u for looking at the blog and commenting :)

Monday, October 18, 2010

test corrections #2


question : translations,rotations,and reflections change the size of sides or angles of the original figure



answer : is false the transformation does not change the size of sides or angles of the original figure