Week 10 CMT Style Problem - 5th Grade


Color Spinners


Use the Spinner 1 shown on the right to answer the questions.
  1. If you spin once, how many different outcomes are possible? What are they?
  2. Does each outcome have the same chance? Explain why or why not.
  3. If you spin once, what is the probability of spinning blue? What kind of probability is this?
  4. If you spin once, what is the probability of spinning red?
  5. If you spin once, what is the probability of spinning purple? Explain.
  6. If you spin 400 times, about how many times would you expect to get green? Explain.


Use Spinner 2 to answer the following.
  1. What color has the best chance of coming up?
  2. What color has the least chance of coming up?
  3. What color has the second best chance of coming up?
  4. If you spun 500 times how many times do you think you would get yellow?
  5. If you spun 30 times how many times do you think you would get red, green or blue?
Spinner 1






Spinner 2