Question

Martin is seating people in the cars of a roller coaster. Each car can seat 8 people. Six of the roller coaster cars are yellow and nine of the roller coaster cars are green. People will be randomly seated in the roller coaster cars. What is the probability that the first person will be seated in a yellow roller coaster car?

Answer 1

The probability is 2/5

Explanation:

Here, we want to calculate the probability that the first person will sit in a yellow roller coaster car

The number of cars to select from is 6 + 9 = 15 cars

The number of yellow cars is 6

So the probability that the first person selects a yellow roller coaster car to seat is 6/15 = 2/5