Question

A dice is thrown 42 times and the outcomes listed are in the form of a table as follows

No:               1 2 3 4 5 6
No: of times 5 2 7 14 10 4

find the probability that 5 turns up

Answer 1

Probability of getting 5 on the dice is 10/42
=5/21 .

Answer 2

P (E) = No of trials in which the event happened ÷ total no of trials .

P (getting 5) = 10÷ 42
=0.2380952381