Question

que - which of the following experiments does not have equally likely outcomes ?

1) rolling a die

2) choosing a number at random from 1 to 10

3) choosing a letter at random from the word MATHEMATICS

Answer 1

1) Rolling a die has 6 outcomes. All six are equally likely.

2) Choosing a number at random from 1 to 10 has 10 outcomes. All 10 are equally likely.

3) Choosing a letter from the word MATHEMATICS has 8 different outcomes. But probability of occurring M, A and T are more then rest of the 5 other alphabets.

Therefore last given experiment does not have equally likely outcomes.