SOLUTION: If the electricity goes out and a clock stops, what is the probability that the second had stops between 2 and 3?
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Question 346362: If the electricity goes out and a clock stops, what is the probability that the second had stops between 2 and 3?
Answer by solver91311(24713) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
There are 12 spaces on the clock face identically sized to the space between the 2 and the 3. So there are 12 ways the thing can happen and 1 way that you would consider a success.
John
My calculator said it, I believe it, that settles it
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