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Leslie is a biologist. She is going to randomly select one animal from her lab to study. There are 5 salamanders, 3 crayfish, and 12 minnows in her lab.

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She'll most likely pick a minnow
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The chances of her selecting a salamander is five out of twenty because there are five salamanders and twenty total creatures.
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