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Class VIII

Outcomes of experiments

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This spinner is spun.

A spinner is divided into eight equal sectors, each with a different color, and has a black arrow attach to its center. From the top-left and moving clockwise, the first sector is a purple sector, followed by a red sector, yellow sector, purple sector, blue sector, purple sector, yellow sector and finally, a red sector. The spinner has 3 purple sectors, 2 red sectors, 2 yellow sectors and 1 blue sector.
a

What is the chance it lands on purple?

b

What is the chance it lands on blue?

c

What is the chance it lands on yellow?

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The following dice is rolled.

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James watched cars drive past his house over five minutes. In this time $13$13 cars went by, and $10$10 of those cars were white.

What is the experimental probability of a car being coloured white?

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A coin was flipped $100$100 times with $51$51 tails recorded. What is the experimental probability of flipping tails with this coin? Give your answer in fully simplified form.

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Outcomes

8.DH.DH.3

Consolidating and generalising the notion of chance in events like tossing coins, dice etc. Visual representation of frequency outcomes of repeated throws of the same kind of coins or dice. Throwing a large number of identical dice/coins together and aggregating the result of the throws to get large number of individual events. Observing the aggregating numbers over a large number of repeated events.

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