document.write( "Question 333361: when you throw a fair dice ,what is the probability of obtaining a number which is odd ? \n" ); document.write( "

Algebra.Com's Answer #238875 by jrfrunner(365) $\"\"$ $\"About$

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Fundamentally, probability is straight foward
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\n" ); document.write( "Probability = (Number of a certain type of events)/(total number of events)
\n" ); document.write( "The difficult part is sometimes enumarating the number in each part of that fraction.
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\n" ); document.write( "In your case is not bad at all to enumarate the events.
\n" ); document.write( "probability of obtaining a number which is odd on a fair die, there are a total of 6 events {1,2,3,4,5,6} and there are 3 odd events {1,3,5}
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\n" ); document.write( "so P(a number which is odd)=Number of odd events/total events = 3/6=1/2 \n" ); document.write( "

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