Which of the following situations are fair?
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Jack and Mia both want the last cookie and neither will agree to share by splitting it. They ask a stranger
passing by to flip a coin to decide who gets the cookie.
To decide which citizens will be asked to participate in a county-wide poll, each citizen is assigned a
number and the county uses a random number generator to determine the citizens who will be
contacted.
Jason plays a game in which he has to pick a ball from a box of 10 balls, which contains 7 black balls
and 3 white balls. He wins the game if he draws a white ball in one attempt.
Jericho designs a game for a school carnival. The game consists of a box of 50 colored balls; 35 are
violet, 10 are orange, and 5 are yellow. The player has to choose one ball from the box. The player wins
$5 if it is a yellow ball, otherwise, the player wins nothing.
Ryan designs a game where a prize wheel is split into five equal sections. Four sections are red and
one is green. If the wheel is spun and lands on a red section, the players loses $1. If the wheel lands on
green section, the player wins $5.
Ray is playing a game in which he rolls a six-sided number cube. If the outcome is six, he is paid $5.
Otherwise, he loses $1.