SOLUTION: A single fair die is tossed. Find the odds in favor of a 5.

Question 865122: A single fair die is tossed. Find the odds in favor of a 5.
Answer by jim_thompson5910(35256) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
There are 6 sides to a standard number cube (ie a die). There is one way to get what you want (rolling a 5) and there are 5 ways to get what you don't want (not rolling a 5, so rolling a 1,2,3,4, or 6)

So the odds in favor are....

Number of ways of getting what you want: Number of ways of getting what you don't want

1:5

The final answer is 1:5 (this is read aloud as "1 to 5")

One possible page for further reading:

http://www.mathwords.com/o/odds_in_favor.htm
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