Fair (English)
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Definition (keystage 2)
Not biased. A dice is said to be fair if all the scores that could be obtained are equally likely.
If, when throwing a dice and you kept getting scores of three and five, you would begin to think that the dice was biased, the dice was unfair.
If, when throwing a dice and you kept getting scores of three and five, you would begin to think that the dice was biased, the dice was unfair.
Definition (keystage 3)
A process is fair if all the outcomes are equally likely.
Relations
- broader:
- (en) Property of function or process
- references:
- (en) Biased
- see also:
- (en) Unfair
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