Exercise 5.3
1. List the outcomes you can see in these experiments.
Spinning a wheel
Tossing two coins together
Answer:
On spinning the given wheel, the possible outcomes are A, B, C, and D.
By tossing two coins together , the possible outcomes ate HT, TH, HH, TT, where H and T presents head and tail of coins respectively.
2. When a die is thrown
- list the possible outcomes of an event of getting
- (a) a prime number (b) not a prime number
- (a) a number greater than 5 (b) a number not greater than 5
- (a) When a dice is thrown, the possible outcomes, 2, 3, 5, are prime numbers. Hence, these are the possible outcomes of an event of not getting a prime number on the face of a dice
(b) Out of these outcomes 1, 4, 6 are not prime numbers. Hence these are the outcomes of an event of not getting a prime number on the face of a dice.
(ii) (A) out of these outcomes, a number greater than 5 is possible 6 when the number of face of
The dice.
(b) Out of these outcomes, a number is not greater than 5 is possible when the number the second
Number on the face of the dice is anyone of the outcomes 1, 2, 3, 4, 5.
