Chapter 11, Problem 32MCQ

Solution

Toidentify:Thewhether the result is fair or not. It is given that 6 high school students who all want to work the same shift during spring break vacation week. To choose which 2 students will can work the shift, the owner assigns each student employee a number between 1 and 6, and then she rolls a standard number cube twice. The numbers that the number cubes show represents the employee who can work the shift.

The result is not fair.

Given information:

It is given that 6 high school students who all want to work the same shift during spring break vacation week. To choose which 2 students will can work the shift, the owner assigns each student employee a number between 1 and 6, and then she rolls a standard number cube twice. The numbers that the number cubes show represents the employee who can work the shift.

Explanation:

Consider the given information.

To make fair decision probability can be used. One can use a probability model to assign probabilities to outcome of a chance process.

A fair game is a game in which all the participants have an equal chance of winning.

When she rolls a standard number cube dice it may possible to come same name in next dice, which means that not all employee has an equal likely chance of being chosen, the strategies described result is an un fair decision.