Roulette wheels in Nevada have 38 pockets. They are numbered 0, 00, and 1 through 36. On

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Roulette wheels in Nevada have 38 pockets. They are numbered 0, 00, and 1 through 36.

On each spin of the wheel, a ball lands in a pocket, and each pocket is equally likely.

a. If you spin a roulette wheel 38 times, is it certain that each number will come up once?

b. If you spin a roulette wheel 3800 times, is it certain that each number will come up 100 times?

c. As the wheel is spun more and more times, will the proportion of times that each number comes up approach 1∕38?

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Elementary Statistics

ISBN: 9781259969454

3rd Edition

Authors: William Navidi, Barry Monk

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