Question

Activity 2: DO IT YOURSELF!
Direction: For each situation, choose different methods to determine the number of
possibleoutcomes of an experiment Write your answer on a separate piece of paper.
1. Find the words that can be formed using the words fast, slow, young and old
and thesuffixes -er and-est.
2. What are the possible outcomes for two people playing rock-paper-scissor?​

Answer 1

Activity 2:

1. Find the words that can be formed using the words fast, slow, young, and old and the suffixes -er and-est.

Fast.

=> faster. -- fastest

slow.

=> slower. -- slowest

young

=> younger. -- youngest

old

=> older. -- oldest

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2. What are the possible outcomes for two people playing rock-paper-scissor?

If two people are playing the rock-paper-scissor game. Then, there will be 3 possible outcomes for 1st person.

1. Rock 2. paper 3. scissor

The second person also has 3 possible outcomes.

1. Rock 2. paper 3. scissor

So, if two people playing rock-paper-scissor game, the possible outcomes will be : 3 x 3 = 9.

Possible outcomes of combinations:

Rock, Rock

Rock, paper

Rock, scissor

paper, paper

paper, rock

paper, scissor

scissor, scissor

scissor, rock

scissor, paper

Hence, there are 9 possible outcomes.