Question

Maggie has 7 tiles with pictures of plants and 2 tiles with pictures of animals. Maggie keeps all the tiles on a mat with the pictures hidden and mixes them up. She then turns one tile face up and finds the picture of a plant on it. She removes this tile from the mat and turns over another tile without looking. What is the probability that the second tile that Maggie turns over has a plant on it?

Answer 1

Answer:6/8 - - - - simplified 3/4

Step-by-step explanation: removing the tile she just flipped over would be 6 plants and 2 animals so there would be 8 total tiles and you would putt the remaining tiles over it like so 6/8 meaning out of the remaining 8 tiles 6 of them are plants giving her a 6 in 8 chance or a 3 in 4 chance

Answer 2

`(3)/(4)`

Explanation:

We are given that Maggie has 7 tiles with pictures of plants and 2 tiles with pictures of animals .

Number of tiles with picture of plants =7

Number of tiles with picture of animals =2

Total number of tiles =7+2=9

We have to find the probability that the second tile that Maggie turns over has plant on it .

When she removes one tile of picture of plant then she has number of tiles of picture of plants =6

Total number of tiles =8

Probability,P(E)=
`(Number\;of\;favorable\;cases)/(Total\;number\;of\;cases)`

Using the formula then we get

The probability that she finds tile of picture of plant =
`(6)/(8)=(3)/(4)`