A Special Roulette Wheel, Which Has an Equal Number of Red

question 49

Multiple Choice

A special roulette wheel, which has an equal number of red and black spots, has come up red four times in a row. Assuming that the roulette wheel is fair, what concept allows a player to know that the probability the next spin of the wheel will come up black is 0.5?

• A) Concept of independent events
• B) Concept of mutually exclusive events
• C) Concept of dependent events
• D) Concept of mutually inclusive events

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Definitions:

Negative Feedback

A process where the output of a system dampens or reduces the process or input, often used to maintain stability in systems or environments.

Multiple Baselines

A research design in behavior analysis that shows the effect of an intervention across different settings, behaviors, or individuals, without the need for a control group.

Single Subject Design

Single subject design is a research method used in the behavioral sciences where experiments are conducted with a single subject, or one subject at a time, to ascertain the effect of an intervention.

Time-Series Design

A research method that involves repeated observations of the same variables over a period of time, often used to assess the impact of interventions.