Question

Marge has a book that holds her stamp collection. In this collection, 6 stamps are from England, 7 are from France, 10 are from the United States, and 3 are from Germany. Marge lives in the United States. If she picks a stamp at random from her collection, what is the probability that it is from a foreign country?

Answer 1

38.46%

Explanation:

there are a total of 6 + 7 + 10 + 3 = 26 stamps in marge's collection

out of these 26 stamps, 10 are from the United States (Marge's home country) and 16 are from foreign countries. If she picks a random stamp, the probability that it is from the United States = 10/26 = 5/13 = 0.3846 = 38.46%