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A Roulette wheel consists of 38 equally-sized sectors identified with the numbers 1 through 36 plus 0 and 00. The 0 and 00 sectors are colored green and half of the remaining numbers are in sectors colored red with the remainder colored black. A steel ball is dropped onto a spinning wheel and as the wheel comes to rest the sector in which it comes to rest is noted. It is easy to determine that the probability of landing on any one of the 38 sectors is 1/38. A picture of a typical American-style wheel and betting board is given by
. (Found at BigFishGames.com.)
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