Which event has a probability of 1?

There's only one obvious answer. What do you think?

Ummm, A?

No. You have half a chance of flipping heads and half of flipping tails.

Study the possible answers and what you know (or are supposed to know) about probability. You have one more chance to get it right here.

So, it has to be either B or C. Hmmm...

Yes.

I've checked them twice. Now you're on your own.

Hi, Ms. Sue, I'm Connor's mother. I was wondering if you can help with Connor by doing the problem shown above. My son is struggling on math, and he yet has autism. Honestly, he;s very intelligent in Language Arts and Science. Math is his weakest subjects. Thank you, good day.

Please help him study this page.

http://www.mathsisfun.com/data/probability.html

As you can see, if an outcome is certain, the probability is 1. Since he has good language skills, please go over the answer choices with him to find the one whose outcome is certain.

Wow, thank you? :/ Good riddance.

An event that has a probability of 1 is called a certain event. It means that the event is guaranteed to happen, or in other words, it will occur with complete certainty. To determine which event has a probability of 1, you need to consider the sample space (all possible outcomes) and the specific event in question.

For example, if you roll a fair six-sided die, the event of getting a number between 1 and 6 has a probability of 1, as it is certain that the outcome will be one of those numbers.

Similarly, if you flip a fair coin, the event of getting either heads or tails has a probability of 1 since you are guaranteed to get one of those outcomes.

In general, any event that includes all possible outcomes of an experiment will have a probability of 1 since there are no other possible outcomes left.

Answers are…

A: flipping heads on a two-sided coin
B: rolling an even number on a six-sided number cube
C: choosing a red or blue marble out of a bag filled with red and blue marbles
D: spinning blue on a spinner that has an equal number of red and yellow spaces