A game of chance consists of spinning an arrow which is equally likely to come to rest pointing to o...

Question

A game of chance consists of spinning an arrow which is equally likely to come to rest pointing to one of the number, 1, 2, 3, …., 12 as shown in figure.

What is the probability that it will point to an odd number?

Accepted Answer

Solution Events in probability are characterized as certain probable outcomes of an experiment that make up a subset of a finite sample space Every event will always have a probability of occurrence between 0 and 1 Given A game of chance consists of spinning an arrow which is equally likely to come to rest pointing number 1 2 3 12 Required to find Probability of following Total numbers on the spin is 12 Favourable outcomes ie to get an odd number are 1 3 5 7 9 and 11 So total number of favourable outcomes ie to get a prime number is 6 We know that Probability Number of favourable outcomes Total number of outcomes Thus the probability of getting a prime number 612 12

RD Sharma Solutions Class 10 Mathematics Solutions for Probability Exercise 13.1 in Chapter 13 - Probability