document.write( "Question 551186: I am home schooled, I have tried to figure this out but I really do not know where to start could you please explain to me how to do this problem.
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\n" ); document.write( "\n" ); document.write( "Jane has a spinner with eight sections of equal size. The sections are labeled 1,3,5,7,11,13,15, and 17. She spins the spinner 3 times and adds the numbers that she spins.
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\n" ); document.write( "\n" ); document.write( "All of the possible spinner sections have odd numbers. The sum of three odd numbers is odd.\r
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\n" ); document.write( "\n" ); document.write( "Which can be clearly seen to have a remainder of 1 when divided by 2, ergo the sum is odd.\r
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