Unit Award Scheme

108698

PROBABILITY

Level: Entry Level

In successfully completing this unit, the learner will have	Evidence needed
demonstrated the ability to 1. give three examples of events which are certain	Student completed work
2. give three examples of events which are impossible	Student completed work
3. give three examples of events which are equally likely	Student completed work
4. classify at least ten given events into at least three given categories, eg certain, likely, unlikely	Student completed work
5. record at least five given events on a probability scale, 0 to 1	Student completed work
6. throw a coin thirty times and record the results ie how many times it falls 'heads' and how many times it falls 'tails'	Student completed work
7. draw a bar chart to show the results from throwing the coin	Student completed work
8. explain the results obtained when throwing a coin	Student completed work
9. throw a fair 6-sided die sixty times and record the experimental probability of each outcome	Student completed work
10. throw a biased 6-sided die sixty times and record the experimental probability of each outcome	Student completed work
11. use the previous experimental probabilities to work out the expected frequency on at least five occasions	Student completed work
12. present the results from the fair die experiment pictorially	Student completed work
13. present the results from the biased die experiment pictorially	Student completed work
acquired an understanding of 14. the difference between a fair die and a biased die.	Summary sheet

Approved 12 Oct 2017

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