Question

A refrigerator contains 6 apples, 5 oranges, 10 bananas, 3 pears, 7 peaches, 11 plums, and 2 mangos. Imagine you stick your hand into the refrigerator and pull out a piece of fruit at random. What is the chance you don't get an apple? 10/4410/44 6/446/44 38/44

Answer 1

The chance you don't get an apple is:

`(38)/(44)`

Explanation:

We know that the probability of an outcome is the chance of getting an outcome and it is calculated by:

Taking the ratio of number of favorable outcomes to total number of outcomes.

A refrigerator contains 6 apples, 5 oranges, 10 bananas, 3 pears, 7 peaches, 11 plums, and 2 mangoes.

Total number of fruits in the refrigerator i.e. total number of outcomes are: 6+5+10+3+7+11+2

= 44

Also the number of favorable outcomes i.e. number of fruits which are not apples in the refrigerator are: 44-6=38

This means that the probability of not getting an apple is:

`\text{Probability(not\ getting\ an\ apple)}=(38)/(44)`