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Drag each event to the correct location on the table (Two columns: Likely or Unlikely).Categorize the events based on the likelihood of their occurrence.

Drag each event to the correct location on the table (Two columns: Likely or Unlikely-example-1
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We have to categorize the events based on the likelihood of their occurrence.

An event with a probability between 0.5 and 1 is likely, while an event with a probability between 0 and 0.5 is unlikely.

The first event is "picking a dime randomly from a piggy bank containing 18 dimes, 3 nickels and 2 pennies".

As the majority of the coins are dimes (18 out of 23 coins), the probability of picking a dime is high and the event is very likely to happen.

The probability is actually P = 18/23 ≈ 0.783.

The second event is "picking a brown puppy randomly from a litter with 4 white puppies, 1 brown puppy and 1 black puppy".

In this case, the probability is 1 out of 6, which is approximately 0.167. Then, this event is unlikely.

The third event is "picking a mango randomly from a bowl that holds 15 mangoes, 3 apples and 2 bananas".

This is the same case as the dimes: the mangoes are majority in the bowl, so the probability of picking one is expected to be higher than 0.5. Then, this event is likely.

The fourth event is "picking a pink ribbon randomly from a box containing 4 pink, 12 red and 4 white ribbons".

In this case, the pink ribbons are not majority and the probability of picking one is less than 0.5. Then, the event is unlikely.

We can summarize as:

Drag each event to the correct location on the table (Two columns: Likely or Unlikely-example-1
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