A bag contains 12 slips of paper of the same size. Each slip has one number on it, 1-12. Describe an impossible event.

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Cheyanne Blevins

Mathematics

17 June, 07:11

A bag contains 12 slips of paper of the same size. Each slip has one number on it, 1-12. Describe an impossible event.

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Jaidyn Quinn · Answer 1

There are many impossible events. Here are a few.

I'm sure you can think of at least 15 more:

- - Pull 5 multiples of 3 from the bag.

- - Pull 3 multiples of 5 from the bag.

- - Pull 7 odd numbers from the bag.

- - Pull 7 even numbers from the bag.

- - Pull two slips from the bag whose sum is more than 21.

- - Pull three slips from the bag whose sum is more than 33.

- - Pull two slips from the bag whose sum is less than 3.

- - Pull three slips from the bag whose sum is less than 6.

- - Pull two slips from the bag whose product is more than 132.

- - Pull two slips from the bag whose product is less than 2.

etc.