Question

Daniel has 1 blue pencil and 5 yellow pencils in his backpack. He also has 2 pink erasers, 4 tan erasers, and 3 gray erasers in his backpack. If Daniel randomly selects one pencil and one eraser from his backpack, what is the probability that he will select a yellow pencil and a pink eraser?

Answer 1

First, you add up all the pencil together so there is 6 pencil then add the eraser so there 9 erasers so the answer is

pencil: 5/6 to get a yellow pencil
erasers:2/9 to get a pink eraser