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Ray is spinning a four colored spinner (red, yellow, green and blue). He is also rolling a six sided die. What is the probability of spinning red and landing on an even number?

A First Course in Probability (10th Edition)

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Author:Sheldon Ross

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Chapter1: Combinatorial Analysis

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Ray is spinning a four colored spinner (red, yellow, green and blue). He is also rolling a six sided die. What is the probability of spinning red and landing on an even number?

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The experiment is spinning a four-colored spinner (red, yellow, green, blue) and rolling a six-sided die.

The event $A$ is spinnig a red

The event B is landing an even number

The probability is the ratio of favorable outcomes of the event to the total number of outcomes.

For two independent events $M$ and $N$

$P (M \cap N) = P (M) P (N)$

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