Let’s Play: What Are the Chances? 12. What are the chances of the following happening? a) Rolling a die and getting a 5. b) Picking the correct number in a raffle where the numbers are between 1 and 30.
c) Picking the correct number in a raffle where the numbers are all the odd numbers between 10 and 40.
d) Pointing to a black square on a chessboard while blindfolded. e) Picking a card from a deck of cards that is a club.
13. What are the chances of the following happening? a) Picking an ace from a deck of cards is a
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b) Picking a month in summer from a bag containing the names of the months of the year is a chance.
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c) Today being a day that has an E in its name. (Be careful!)
14. A survey was conducted in a class to find out their favourite foods from a choice put to them. The choices were fruit, chocolate, cake and cheese. The results were as follows.