Consider a square board 3' x 3' (or picture  frame) hung on a wall. The board is  subdivided into 9 squares with equal size  (1' x 1'). A child throws a gooey blob at the  board that cleanly lands in one of the 9 squares with equal likelihood. If the squares are  numbered 1 to 9, (a) Find the prob that the blob lands in square  #1. (b) Find the prob that the blob lands in one of  the squares numbered 1 to 5,

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Consider a square board 3' x 3' (or picture 
frame) hung on a wall. The board is 
subdivided into 9 squares with equal size 
(1' x 1'). A child throws a gooey blob at the 
board that cleanly lands in one of the 9 squares
with equal likelihood. If the squares are 
numbered 1 to 9,
(a) Find the prob that the blob lands in square 
#1.
(b) Find the prob that the blob lands in one of 
the squares numbered 1 to 5, inclusive. 

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