Which set of data shows fifty percent as the experimental probability of a particular traffic light being green on your way to school in the morning? ten of twenty-five selections at random from a card deck being a black card, with black representing a green light 2 tails in twenty coin flips, with tails representing a green light 2 odd-numbers in 8 rolls of a standard die, with odd numbers representing a green light spinning twenty vowels out of forty spins of a spinner with 6 equally divided sections labeled with 3 vowels and 3 consonants
Lets hope you don't beat me to your own question this time....
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Assumption: the traffic light shows green or red. (There is no yellow in this experiement.) Option1: ten of twenty-five selections at random from a card deck being a black card, with black representing a green light Empirical Probability of Green is 10/25 which is not 1/2 or 50%. Option2: 2 tails in twenty coin flips, with tails representing a green light Empirical probability of green is 2/20 is not 1/2. Option3: 2 odd-numbers in 8 rolls of a standard die, with odd numbers representing a green light Empirical probability of green is 2/8 which is not 1/2 I leave the analysis of Option4 to @TurtleNadz along with a comment that whoever created this question needs a lesson in writing with clarity. And, I cannot certify that the answer that will result is correct given the way the problem is written. Let me know how it turns out, okay?
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