Probability Word Problems Worksheets

How to Calculate Probability - When we are finding out the probability, we are calculating the likelihood of a specific event taking place over given attempts. Mathematically, the probability is defined as the possibility of one or more events taking place divided by the total number of likely outcomes. Calculating probability is about breaking the problem in different possibilities and multiplying those possibilities by one another. In probability problems, we are given events that either happens or doesn't have the possibility of happening. The opposite of the event and the event cannot take place at the same time. We have to define all the possible outcomes. For example, if we consider rolling a three on a die as our event. Then we know that a 3 can be rolled only once on a 6-sided die. The total number of outcomes is 6. So, we have 6 possible events, and there is 1 outcome whose probability we want to calculate. We divide the likely events with the total number of the outcomes. In case we want to roll a 3 on a 6 sided- die, the number of events is 1, and the total number of outcomes is 6. Considering the formula of probability: P = number of possible events/ total number of outcomes, P = 1 / 6 , P = 0.166.