Chapter 9.2, Problem 24MC

A roulette wheel has $38$ slots around the rim; $36$ slots are numbered from $1$ to $36$. Half of these $36$ slots are red, and the other half are black. The remaining $2$ slots are numbered $0$ and $00$ and are green. As the roulette wheel is spun in one direction, a small ivory ball is rolled along the rim in the opposite direction. The ball has an equally likely chance of falling into any one of the $38$ slots. Find the probabilities of the events listed below.

a. Ball lands in a black slot.

b. Ball lands on $0$ and $00$

c. Ball does not land on a number from $1$ through $12$

d. Ball lands on an odd number or on a green slot