Question

Tom has a fair spinner with six sides. They are labelled red, red, blue, green, red, blue. Choose the word that best describes the likelihood that the spinner will land on a colour not green.

Answer 1

It is MOST LIKELY NOT going to land on green.

Explanation:

Since the spinner has 6 sides, the total possible outcome is 6. There are 3 reds, 2 blues and 1 green.

The probability that the spinner will land on a green is
`(1)/(6)`. But since we are looking for the probability that it won't land on green, we have
`1 $-$ (1)/(6) = (5)/(6)`

From here we can best describe the likelihood that the spinner will land on a colour not green as: it is MOST LIKELY NOT going to land on green