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The spinner is spun 300 times. How many times would you expect the arrow to stop on green if the spinner is fair? The table below shows the number of times the arrow stops on each colour. The spinner is spun once more. Estimate the probobility of it landing on purple. If the spinner is spun another 1000 times, about how many times would you expect it to land on blue?

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If the spinner is fair, it means that the probability of the arrow stopping on any given color is the same. Given that there are four colors on the spinner (green, blue, purple, and yellow), we can expect the arrow to stop on green 1/4 of the time. So if the spinner is spun 300 times, we would expect the arrow to stop on green 300 times * 1/4 = 75 times.

Given that the spinner has been spun once more, the table now shows that the spinner has been spun 301 times. We can estimate the probability of it landing on purple by using the number of times it has landed on purple divided by the total number of spins.

Purple: 48/301 = 0.159 or 15.9%

If the spinner is spun another 1000 times, we can expect it to land on blue 1000 * 1/4 = 250 times approximately, this is assuming the spinner is fair.

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