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A student claims that if the odds in favor of winning a game are a:b, then out of every a+b games she would win a games. Hence, the probability of the event of winning the game is a/b+b Is the student's reasoning correct? why or why not?
10 years ago

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PsyDAG
Typos? Odds of winning = a/(a+b) = # winning games over total.
10 years ago

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