Question

A bag of ice pops contains 2 flavored raspberry, 5 flavored lemon, and 3 flavored lime. Find the probability of each event.

a) Picking 2 lemon ice pops at random.

b) picking 2 lime and 1 raspberry at random.

Answer 1

A) 2/10 or 20%

B) 3/10 or 30%

Explanation:

There are 10 ice pops.

10 is going to be your denominator

Your numerator is going to be whatever amount of ice pops is.

After finding your fraction, divide the numerator by the denominator.

Lastly turn your decimal into a fraction.

2/10=0.2=20%

Hope I helped you.