The Power Rank website (thepower rank.com) listed the probability of each team to win the 2014 World Cup in soccer as follows:

a. Interpret Brazil's probability of \(35.9 \%\), which was based on computer simulations of the tournament under various assumptions. Is it a relative frequency or a subjective interpretation of probability?

b. Germany would emerge as the actual winner of the 2014 World Cup. Does this indicate that the 7.4\% chance of Germany winning, which was calculated before the tournament, should have been \(100 \%\) instead?

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1. Brazil, 35.9% 2. Argentina, 10.0% 3. Spain, 8.9% 4. Germany, 7.4% 5. Netherlands, 5.7%. 6. Portugal, 3.9% 7. France, 3.4% 8. England, 2.8% 9. Uruguay, 2.5% 10. Mexico, 2.5% 11. Italy, 2.3% 12. Ivory Coast, 2.0% 13. Colombia, 1.5% 14. Russia, 1.5% 15. United States, 1.1% 16. Chile, 1.0% 17. Croatia, 0.9% 18. Ecuador, 0.8% 19. Nigeria, 0.8% 20. Switzerland, 0.7% 21. Greece, 0.6% 22. Iran, 0.6% 23. Japan, 0.6% 24. Ghana, 0.6% 25. Belgium, 0.4% 26. Honduras, 0.3% 27. South Korea, 0.3% 28. Bosnia-Herzegovina, 29. Costa Rica, 0.3% 30. Cameroon, 0.2% 31. Australia, 0.2% 32. Algeria, 0.1%