A fair spinner has 11 equal sections: 4 red, 3 blue and 4 green. It is spun twice. What is the probability of getting 2 different colours?

Aorlinn asked Apr 27, 2023

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A fair spinner has 11 equal sections: 4 red, 3 blue and 4 green.

It is spun twice.
What is the probability of getting 2 different colours?

Aorlinn asked Apr 27, 2023

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Answer:

66.1% or 80/121

Explanation:

you calculate what is probability that it lands on red/blue/green twice and you add all the probabilities together. than you substract this from 1.

Anentropic answered May 1, 2023

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