Question

You put the names of all the students in your class in a paper bag. There are 14 boys and 20 girls. If you draw a name at random, what is P(boy’s name)?

a.7/10
b.10/7
c.7/17
d.10/17

Answer 1

Step-by-step explanation:The answers is c - 7/17.

So, this is how you'll get 7/17 you have to add the amount of boy's names and the amount of girl's names, so you add 14 and 20 together, means 14+20 which will give you 34. Then make it into a fraction, our numerator will be 14 because the questions asks for boy's names , and our denominator will be 34 because that is the total amount of names in the paper bag. Finally we gotta see if we can simplify it and in this case we could. Our fraction is 14/34 and in this case we could totally simplify it. For simplifying divide the numerator and the denominator by 2 you'll get 7/17.

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