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Fair   (English)

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.

Definition (keystage 3)

A process is fair if all the outcomes are equally likely.

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