Question

There are 207 identical plastic chips number one through 207 in a box what is the probability of reaching into the box and randomly drawing the chip number 168?Express your answer as a simplified fraction or a decimal rounded to four decimal places

Answer 1

From the information given, we are to find the probability of randomly drawing the chip number 168.

Recall:

Probability is the liklihood or chance of an event occurring. Probability can be determine using the formula below:

probasbility = Number of favurable / toyal number of possible outcome.

For this question, we are to determine the probability of reaching into the box and randomly drawing the chip numbered 168..

Here the number of favourable outcome is 1 (which represents the chip numbere 168).

Total number of possible outcomes is 207 (that is the 207 identical plastic schips).

Threfore,

Probability = 1/207 or

This is the probabity of randomly drawing the chip numbered 168.