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1) There are 12 green, 4 blue, 15 yellow, and 7 white marbles in a container.
a) What are the odds in favour of a randomly chosen marble being white?
b) What are the odds in favour of a randomly chosen marble being a colour other than yellow?
c) What is the probability that a randomly chosen marble will be a colour other than yellow?
2)Liam is a server for a catering company. At an evening event, he is serving a platter of mini quiches. His platter contains 20 ham and cheese quiches, 15 spinach quiches, and 10 crab quiches. If a guest randomly chooses a quiche from the plate:
a) What are the odds in favour of taking a spinach quiche?
b) What are the odds against choosing a crab quiche?
c) What is the probability of choosing a ham and cheese quiche?
3) A quality control test at a car manufacturing plant found that the odds in favour of a windshield being installed correctly are 4999:1. If the plant assembles 84 025 cars in one year, how many are likely to have problems with the windshield installation?
4) Marie-Claude's sofiball team made it to the league finals. A sports reporter for the newspaper said that the odds in favour of the team winning the championship are
5:2. What is the probability that Marie-Claude's team will win?
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