Describing Events GRASPS

Unit 4: Applications of Probability

Goal: Describe two events of your choice for an advertising
company.
Role: You have been hired by an advertising company.
Audience: You want to describe the events using a Venn Diagram
and subsets to the board members that hired you.
Situation: Survey 25 random people about two events of your
choice. For example, ask 25 people if they want like McDonalds,
Wendys, both, or neither. After you have gathered your data, you
will create a Venn Diagram and describe the events listed in this
GRASPS.
Product: You will be responsible for handing the following materials
listed below, so your client can use your data to make decisions
about upcoming commercials.
1. Data Collection Sheet
2. Venn Diagram
3. Describing Events Page
4. Presentation (examples: PowerPoint, Prezi, Glogster, etc.)
5. Rubric

Standards: The rubric for success is on the back of this sheet. In

completing this project it is important that you be able to show
mathematical accuracy.

Name:
GRASPS Rubric

1. Data
Collection
Sheet

2. Venn
Diagram

3. Describing
Events

4.
Presentation

5. Addition
Rule

Describing Events

5
Data collection sheet
is complete and
matches the data in
the Venn Diagram.

3
The data collection
sheet is incomplete
and/or does not match
the Venn Diagram
created.

1
There is no data
collection sheet.

The Venn Diagram is

labeled correctly and
includes the correct
data that was
collected.

The Venn Diagram

contains no more than
2 mistakes (labeling or
data) and/or does not
include the data that
was collected.

The Venn Diagram has

more than 2 mistakes
or is missing from the
project.

There are no
mistakes.

There are 1-2 mistakes. There are more than 2

mistakes.

A presentation is
used to organize the
data. All data and
math is accurate to
the findings and
calculations.

A presentation is used,
but there is missing
data and/or
calculations.

No presentation is
used.

The Addition Rule is

used to verify the
collected data and
Venn Diagram (
A B ). There are

The Addition Rule is

used, but there are
mistakes is verifying
the Venn Diagram.

The Addition Rule is

not used to verify the
Venn Diagram.

All probability
calculations match up
with the collected data,
but there are 1-2
mistakes in accuracy.

The probability
calculations contains
more than 2 mistakes
and/or do not match up
with the collected data.

no mistakes.
6. Uniform
Probability
Model

All probability
calculations are
accurate and match
up with the collected
data.

/30 points ASSESSMENT WEIGHT

Data Collection Sheet

Survey Topic
Event A:___________________
B:______________________
Event A

Event B

Event
Both

Venn Diagram

Neither

Describing The Survey

1) Describe each of the following events below:
a) A
b) B
c) A B
d) A B

e) A B

f) A B

2) If a person was chosen randomly, what is the probability of the following:

a) A
b) B
c) A B
d) A B

e) A B

3) Use the Addition Rule to verify your probability calculations.