{"id":21282,"date":"2026-05-25T22:28:07","date_gmt":"2026-05-25T16:28:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/mcq\/solve-a-probability-question-7\/"},"modified":"2026-05-25T22:28:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-25T16:28:07","slug":"solve-a-probability-question-7","status":"publish","type":"mcq","link":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/mcq\/solve-a-probability-question-7\/","title":{"rendered":"Solve a probability question"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A fair 4-section spinner and a fair 3-section spinner are spun once. What is the probability of getting one chosen section on each spinner?<\/p>\n<ul class=\"quiz-options\">\n<li>2\/12<\/li>\n<li>1\/12<\/li>\n<li>1\/7<\/li>\n<li>3\/12<\/li>\n<li>4\/3<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","topic":[2894,2893],"subject":[2750],"education_level":[1894],"class_list":["post-21282","mcq","type-mcq","status-publish","hentry","topic-advanced-counting","topic-probability","subject-advanced-mathematics","education_level-grade-8"],"mcq_note":"The two events are independent. Multiply the probabilities: 1\/4 \u00d7 1\/3 = 1\/12. Independent events do not affect each other. For one chosen result on each spinner, multiply the separate probabilities to find the combined probability. The correct answer is 1\/12, which matches the calculation or reasoning shown.","mcq_options":[{"right":"no","answer":"2\/12"},{"right":"yes","answer":"1\/12"},{"right":"no","answer":"1\/7"},{"right":"no","answer":"3\/12"},{"right":"no","answer":"4\/3"}],"multi_answers":"no","subject_terms":[{"id":2750,"title":"Advanced Mathematics","slug":"advanced-mathematics"}],"topic_terms":[{"id":2894,"title":"Advanced Counting","slug":"advanced-counting"},{"id":2893,"title":"Probability","slug":"probability"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/mcq\/21282","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/mcq"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/mcq"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21282"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=21282"},{"taxonomy":"subject","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/subject?post=21282"},{"taxonomy":"education_level","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/education_level?post=21282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}