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2 years ago

An event has a probability of 2/7. How would you best describe the likelihood of this event? (Hint: Change it to a decimal)

Mathematics

2 answers:

Alenkinab [10]2 years ago

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The answer to this is less likely

AVprozaik [17]2 years ago

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Answer:

Less Likely

Step-by-step explanation:

A 2/7 probability means that it will happen less than half the time.

The eliminates equally likely, more likely, and certain as those are 50% or greater.

The probability is also greater than 0%, so it's not "impossible"

Therefore, the answer must be B, Less Likely.

It happens less than half the time, but can at times happen.

Hope this helps!

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test each
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