During a school fair a spinner with four equal sectors coloured red

MATHEMATICS · Subjective · GCSE · Mathematics · Probability · Probability

Problem

During a school fair a spinner with four equal sectors coloured red, blue, green and yellow was spun 200 times. The pointer landed on red 62 times, blue 48 times, green 55 times and yellow 35 times. (i) Calculate the empirical probability of the pointer stopping on each colour. (ii) Arrange the colours in order from most likely to least likely.

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