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The casino game, roulette, allows the gambler to bet on the probability of a ball, which spins in the roulette wheel, landing on a particular color, number, or range of numbers. The table used to place bets contains numbers, and each number is assigned to a color and a range.

Compute the probability of winning the following types of bets:

Betting on one of the dozen groups.

Step-by-step explanation

Step 1.

The probability of an event  is defined as:

 

Total numbers on the table are.  

Now in roulette, there are three groups of dozen

In a game, there are  numbers in one group of dozen

Thus, what is to be found, is the probability of winning by betting on one group of dozen.

Required probability is:

 

Therefore, the probability of winning betting on one of the dozen groups is .   

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Introductory Statistics
OER Edition, 2013
Openstax
ISBN: 9781938168208

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