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A game of chance consists of spining an arrow which comes to rest pointing at one of the numbers 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8, and these are equally likely outocomes. What is the probability that it will point at (i) 8 ? (ii) an odd number ? (iii) a number greater than 2 ?
(iv) a number less than 9 ?

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(i) `(1)/(8) , (1)/(2) (iii) (3)/(4) (iv) 1`
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