For the spinner above, the probability of landing on black is 1/2 and the probability of landing on red is 1/3. Suppose is is spun four times. What is the pobability that it will land on white all four times?A. 1/216B. 1/24C. 1/4096D. 1/1296My answer was A. 1/216 but, that was wrong. Cant figure this out. I always hated doing probability questions...
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First, we need to figure out the probability of landing on white one time. The probability of landing on black is 1/2, and the probability of landing on red is 1/3. If we add these probabilities together we get: