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A dartboard has eight sections of equal area. The letters represent colors red yellow blue and green. Complete the probability distribution for a dart that hits the board at a random location.

A dartboard has eight sections of equal area. The letters represent colors red yellow-example-1
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The answer is:


Yellow=(3)/(8)

the dart can land in 8 different places, and 3 of them are yellow. Thus, the probability is:


P(Yellow)=\frac{yellow\text{ }zones}{total\text{ }zones}=(3)/(8)

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