If the odds in favor of a horse winning a race is 6:116:11, what is the probability of the horse winning the race? Express your answer as a simplified fraction.
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The odds in favor of the horse winning are given as 6:11. This means that for every 6 times the horse wins, there are 11 times it does not win. Show more…
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