Likelihood?
Odds?
Statistics?
Law of large numbers?
WHAT IS THIS TERM THAT ULTIMATELY DERTERMINES ALL RESULTS WILL EVENTUALLY HAPPEN EVEN IF THE GAME IS RANDOM?
2007-10-16 11:05:03 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Travel ➔ United States ➔ Las Vegas
chance, umm stats? idk why do you need to know this?
2007-10-16 11:08:45 · answer #1 · answered by |~fashonista~| 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There is no guarantee that all results will happen if a game is truly random. Probability says that the chances are equal of any result happening, but there's no guarantee that they will all eventually happen.
If you take a standard 6-sided die and roll it over and over, there's no guarantee that the number 3 will ever come up. After a couple of hundred tries with no 3's coming up you'd start to suspect that something is wrong with the die, but it's still theoretically possible to roll a die 100000 times and never get a 3. The chances of getting a 3 on any particular roll are 1 in 6, but there's nothing that guarantees that making thousands of 1 in 6 rolls will produce all 6 possible results. It's very likely (if the die is truly random) but not guaranteed.
2007-10-16 18:29:34 · answer #2 · answered by Scott B 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Probability is the right word. The probability of an event is the number of times that event comes up divided by the total number of attempts. Odds is a ratio of the number of desired events to the number of undesired events. Likelihood is just a general word that could mean odds or probability. Statistics is the math that studies this kind of stuff.
2007-10-16 18:28:24 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I think you're just spelling it wrong. . .Probability
2007-10-16 18:24:36 · answer #4 · answered by towanda 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well you have confused me
2007-10-17 12:45:19 · answer #5 · answered by Zippy 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋