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?
Answers
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