SOLUTION: An American roulette wheel has 38 slots: two slots are numbered 0 and 00, and the remainging slots are numbered from 1 to 36. Find the probability that the ball lands in an odd-nu
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Question 1110357: An American roulette wheel has 38 slots: two slots are numbered 0 and 00, and the remainging slots are numbered from 1 to 36. Find the probability that the ball lands in an odd-numbered slot.
Found 2 solutions by Fombitz, math_helper:
Answer by Fombitz(32388) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
So 36 slots are numbered (not 0 and 00).
18 slots even, 18 slots odd.
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Answer by math_helper(2461) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
There are 18 odd numbers and 38 numbers overall:
P(odd) = 18/38 = 9/19 = ____________
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