Question

Choose the right answer. Two hundred fifty tickets are sold at a church fund raiser. If Sarah buys 15 tickets, the probability that she will win the prize quilt is .

Answer 1

There is a 3/50 or 6% chance that sara will win the prize. 

Answer 2

Her probability to win the prize quilt is 0.06, or she has a 6% probability of winning it.

Explanation:

In statistics, a probability of 100% is represented with a 1. In this case, if Sarah would have bought the 250 tickets, she would have a probability of 1 to win the prize, as

`(250)/(250)=1`

then, if this expression is multiplied by 100, we could say that the precentage of probability would have been 100%...

But Sarah didn't buy the 250 tickets, instead she bought 15, therefore

`(15)/(250)=(3)/(50)=0.06`

which means that the probability of her winning the prize quilt is 0.06, or, if multiplied by 100, she has a 6% probability of winning the prize quilt.