What are the odds?

Do you understand when the water report says there is a 60 % chance of rain? Then you inderstand a little bit about odds.(p.6)

Did you know that you have a 1 in 10,000 chance of getting hit by lighting? Or that you have a 1 in 175,711,536 chance of winning the Mega Millions lottery? You have a much better chance of being born with wlwvwn fingers or eleven toes - That's 1 in 500.

The chance, or probability, that something will or won't happen is called "the odds."

Many different things can determine the odds. For example, if you buy 100 lottery tickets, your chances of winning the lottery are better than if you buy one ticket.

What are the odds? : from shark attack to lightning strike

Genevieve Kocienda

New York : Cambridge University Press, 2014

The wheel

It's a man-made invention, it has completely changed the way we live, and it's everywhere in the world. What is it? The wheel.(p.6)

The wheel as we know it is qite a new invention. The wheel is best known for its use in vehicles, but it was first used in industry. Throughout history machines have used wheels. and for a long time wheels also made machines work.

There are several kinds of wheels such as, for sports, vehicles and machines.




The wheel

Caroline Shackleton and Nathan Paul Turner

New York : Cambridge University Press, 2014