Use the following information to answer the exercise. The casino game, roulette, allows the gambler to bet on the probability of a ball, which spins in the roulette wheel, landing on a particular color, number, or range of numbers. The table used to place bets contains of 38 numbers, and each number is assigned to a color and a range.

  

      

  

Compute the probability of winning the following types of bets:

  

a. Betting on a color

  

b. Betting on one of the dozen groups

  

c. Betting on the range of numbers from 1 to 18

  

d. Betting on the range of numbers 19–36

  

e. Betting on one of the columns

  

f. Betting on an even or odd number (excluding zero)
 

1st Dozen 2nd Dozen 3rd Dozen 1 to 18 EVEN ODD 19 to 36 00 12 3 6 8L 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 2 to 12 to 12 to 1