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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 38 numbers, and we assign each number to a color and a range.

The description of the roulette table is:

Compute the probability of winning the following types of bet:

Betting on three numbers in a line, as in 1-2-3

 

Step-by-step explanation

Step 1.

Define the probability of an event as:

 

Total numbers  

We need to find the probability of winning by betting on three numbers in a line, as, .

Required probability is:

 

Hence, the probability of winning betting on three numbers in a line, as in is .  

 

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Introductory Statistics
OER Edition, 2013
Openstax
ISBN: 9781938168208

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