Every year, on the first day of school, the sixth grade teacher ...

[penza]

Every year, on the first day of school, the sixth grade teacher at Greenville Middle School asks his students to pick their favorite primary color: red, yellow, or blue. From years of experience, the teacher knows that only 1 in 7 students choose yellow and that about half of the students pick blue. What is the chance that a student picks red?

Question 2

When two dice are rolled, there are 36 possible outcomes. Six of these outcomes have two the same numbers (two ones, two twos, etc.). The chance of getting two of the same numbers when rolling two dice is 6/36 or 0.1667 . What is the chance of getting 2 numbers that are different from one another?

[gcook]

Answer to Question 1

0.357

Answer to Question 2

0.8333

[penza]

Excellent

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