In the game of roulette in the united states a wheel has 38 slots: 18 slots are black, 18 slots are red, and 2 slots are green. we watched a friend play roulette for two hours. in that time we noted that the wheel was spun 50 times and that out of those 50 spins black came up 22 times. based on this data, the P (black) = 0.44. this is an example of what type of probability. Observational, Subjective, Classical, Empirical

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Iyana Fischer

Mathematics

30 March, 20:43

In the game of roulette in the united states a wheel has 38 slots: 18 slots are black, 18 slots are red, and 2 slots are green. we watched a friend play roulette for two hours. in that time we noted that the wheel was spun 50 times and that out of those 50 spins black came up 22 times. based on this data, the P (black) = 0.44. this is an example of what type of probability. Observational, Subjective, Classical, Empirical

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Trace Hansen · Answer 1

The answer is likely going to be Observational Probability, because black equates to almost half of the slots. Given that the wheel was spun 50 times, you would expect to see it land on black roughly half of the time. Which is what happened, it landed on black roughly half of the time.