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What are the Odds?
Events with Probability
Risk
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True or False: Shakespeare mentions odds in Henry IV
True
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True or False: Odds are typically expressed in a range from 0 to 100 percent
False
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True or False: If probability is expressed as a fraction, the numerator can be larger than the denominator.
False
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A basketball player has been invited to go on a skiing trip, but the state tournament is two weeks away. The odds of having a season-ending skiing accident are 7:993. What is the probability, written as a percentage, that the player would obtain an injury and be out of the tournament?
.7%
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The language of odds such as "ten to one" for estimating risks is found in the _________ century
The sixteenth century
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10 out of 670 families in the hospital have twins. What are the odds that a particular family will have twins?
1:66
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What is the probability of an event that MUST occur?
1 or 100%
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1% of patients have died from a certain medical procedure. So far, 50,000 people in the United States have had the procedure. How many have died?
50
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Probability theory did not arise as a branch of mathematics until the mid-____________ century
Seventeenth
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Fair odds are represented as what
1:1 (One to One)
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DAILY DOUBLE: If you roll a six sided die, what is the probability it rolls a number divisible by 3
2/6 or 1/3 (33.33%)
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A parachute is expected to fail 0.3% of the time. If 10,000 people recently parachuted, how many would experience a failure?
30
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A friend said, "I can get a sum of 8 and a sum of 6 rolling two dice before you can get two sums of 7’s." Would the game be fair? Why? Or why not?
No. There 10 ways for the other person to get a favorable outcome, and only 6 ways for you to get a favorable outcome. Then you have a 54.6% chance of losing
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If you roll a six sided die, what are the odds that it rolls a number divisible by 3
2:4 (Two to Four)
400
What is the probability of drawing an ace out of a deck of 52 cards that has 4 suits (club, heart, spade, diamond)?
4/52 = 1/13
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A nuclear power plant company has had only 1 in 217 of their workers experience accidents resulting in fatalities. The company wants to open a new plant in your state. If the new plant had 2,400 workers, how many are estimated to be at risk of an accident?
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