A fair spinner has 8 equal sections, of which 7 are shaded. Which word describes landing on a shaded section, and what is its probability as a fraction out of the total number of sections?

Explanation

Seven of the eight equal sections are shaded, so the spinner stops on shading in seven spins out of eight, a value above the halfway mark and below the top of the scale. Answering 1/8 counts the single unshaded section instead, and that fraction measures the opposite event, which is the rare one here.