Its not an exact thing like with circle radius, but basically add together all the numbers and make a fraction like if there are 3 yellow balls, 3 green ones and 5 blue ones in a bag, then you add 3+3+5 = 11, and then you figure out that the probability of picking a blue ball out of the bag is 5/11.
Probability is the ratio of all outcomes that you define as being of interest divided by all possible outcomes.
For example, the number of ways to get doubles on 2 6-sided dice is 6 (1,1 2,2, 3,3 4,4 5,5 6,6) but there are 36 different ways for the dice to turn up so the probability of getting doubles on a single roll is 6/36 = 1/6
Likewise there are 6 ways to roll a 7 (1,6 2,5 3,4 4,3 5,2 6,1) so the odds of rolling a seven on a single roll are 6/36 = 1/6
The math gets more involved as you start looking at situations where the odds of getting any one of the particular outcomes are not the same - for example, with loaded dice - or where you are looking at a sequence of events.
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There is no single formula for probability, since there are many different aspects to probability.There is no single formula for probability, since there are many different aspects to probability.There is no single formula for probability, since there are many different aspects to probability.There is no single formula for probability, since there are many different aspects to probability.
The formula for probability is as follows:Probability = Total number of favorable cases / total number of casesIt always lies between 0 and 1 and has no unit.
Probability equals favorable outcomes divided by total number of outcomes.
you divide a 100% by the numerator.
Usually, a fraction is already a probability. Like if you roll a die, the probability that you will get a 1 is 1/6. So your probability would be your fraction.