Question

Mathsight solutions in class eight in exercise 5.3 in 2020

Answer 1

Answer:

1. List the outcomes you can see in these experiments.

(a) Spinning a wheel (b) Tossing two coins together

Ans. (a) There are four letters A, B, C and D in a spinning wheel. So there are 4 outcomes.

(b) When two coins are tossed together. There are four possible outcomes HH, HT, TH, TT.

(Here HT means head on first coin and tail on second coin and so on.)

Step-by-step explanation:

Ans. (i) (a) Outcomes of event of getting a prime number are 2, 3 and 5.

(b) Outcomes of event of not getting a prime number are 1, 4 and 6.

(ii) (a) Outcomes of event of getting a number greater than 5 is 6.

(b) Outcomes of event of not getting a number greater than 5 are 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5.