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Fiona and her friends are playing a game by guessing where a coin will land when it is randomly dropped inside the square shown below.

Fiona guesses that the coin is likely to land in the blue area. Which explains whether or not Fiona is correct and why?
Fiona is correct because there are blue areas in the square.
Fiona is correct because more than half of the square is blue.
Fiona is not correct because the coin will definitely land in the white area.
Fiona is not correct because a larger part of the square is white.

Fiona and her friends are playing a game by guessing where a coin will land when it-example-1
User Pmeyer
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Answer:

Fiona is not correct because a larger part of the square is white.

Explanation:

the blue area only makes up 1/3 of the square

User Neil Smith
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Answer:

Fiona is not correct because a larger part of the square is white.

Explanation:

Fiona guesses that the coin is likely to land in the blue area. Here, Fiona is not correct because a larger part of the square is white.

As we can see the attached picture, there is a major white part. The blue part is not even half. It is less than half. The probability decreases here as the blue part is less as compared to white part. If blue part would have been more then Fiona's guess would have been right.

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