SOLUTION: Suppose that you are playing a board game that has a spinner with 10 equal spaces. Suppose in a single game there was a total of 219 spins and 37 of them were the number 1. What

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Question 409747: Suppose that you are playing a board game that has a spinner with 10 equal spaces. Suppose in a single game there was a total of 219 spins and 37 of them were the number 1.
What is the classical probability of spinning a 1?
In the long run, what would you expect the probability of a 1 to be?
What is the empirical probability of spinning a 1?

Answer by stanbon(75887) About Me  (Show Source):
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Suppose that you are playing a board game that has a spinner with 10 equal spaces. Suppose in a single game there was a total of 219 spins and 37 of them were the number 1.
What is the classical probability of spinning a 1?
Ans: 1/10
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In the long run, what would you expect the probability of a 1 to be?
Ans: 1/10
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What is the empirical probability of spinning a 1?
Ans: 37/219
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Cheers,
Stan H.
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