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Thank you We sneak okay Here's A shmoop e question

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for you Suppose the spinner shown below is fair meaning

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that each of the little pie slice shaped thing he's

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have an equal chance of being landed upon bethany's Friends

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can't find a twister board so they're forced to use

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this thing what's the probability of her spinning the spinner

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once and getting a vowel or the letter t If

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she is successful she'll get to put her foot right

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up against greg's foot which would be just about the

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best thing ever hear the potential answers Okay so what

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is this question asking Well first whether we can read

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something resembling a pie chart Second question is testing whether

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we understand how the word or works in these probability

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style questions when we have or we add meaning that

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the stuff before the or and the stuff after it

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gets summed when we figure out the total probability quotient

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that is if either of the things on either side

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of the orson happened then we positively count the numbers

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involved So in this case the first part before the

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or is asking for the odds of spinning of vowel

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this part is pretty straight forward We can count one

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two three four five six seven eight letters total and

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hear the vowels a e those are the vowels and

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there are two of them So the odds of spinning

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of vowel on the first spin our two out of

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eight But then the second part of the question adds

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thie or roll a t and there are three teas

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so we just add who vowels plus three teas and

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we get a five potential yea outcomes out of a

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total of eight an answer c ola bethany gets the

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spin she was hoping for and is now getting close 00:01:46.491 --> [endTime] and personal with her crush

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