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Question 5 • Grade 7 Mathematics

Which event has a probability other than 1 half ?

Answer
A
flipping a coin with the result of tails
B
choosing a red card from a standard deck of cards (a standard deck has 52 cards 26 of which are red)
C
rolling an even number on a number cube that is numbered from 1 to 6
D
choosing a vowel from a bag of tiles that contains one of each letter of the alphabet

Explanation

A coin has a 1/2 chance of landing tails, and a standard deck has 26 red cards out of 52, also 1/2. A number cube has three even numbers (2, 4, and 6) out of six, so that chance is 1/2 too. The alphabet bag has 5 vowels out of 26 letters, which is not 1/2, so choosing a vowel is the event with a different probability.

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