A psychic calls everyone on a list of 275 sports bettors with tips about who will win the "hard-to-predict games in the first round of the NCAA "March Madness" tournament This tournament has 4 groups of 16 teams, ranked 1- 16 within each group. Teams ranked (8,9) and teams ranked (7, 10) in each group play each other - these are the hard-to-predict games. At the end of the call, the psychic gives their Venmo and tells the bettor to send money for future predictions. Explain how the psychic can correctly predict all hard-to predict games for someone, but would have trouble predicting any more games.

A psychic calls everyone on a list of 275 sports bettors with tips about who will win the "hard-to-predict games in the first round of the NCAA "March Madness" tournament This tournament has 4 groups of 16 teams, ranked 1- 16 within each group. Teams ranked (8,9) and teams ranked (7, 10) in each group play each other - these are the hard-to-predict games. At the end of the call, the psychic gives their Venmo and tells the bettor to send money for future predictions. Explain how the psychic can correctly predict all hard-to predict games for someone, but would have trouble predicting any more games.

College Algebra

10th Edition

ISBN:9781337282291

Author:Ron Larson

Publisher:Ron Larson

Chapter8: Sequences, Series,and Probability

Section8.7: Probability

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