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A Science class has 12 boys and 15 girls. What is the probability that a student chosen at random is a boy?
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A Science class has 12 boys and 15 girls. What is the probability that a student chosen at random is a boy?

User Dirk Scholten
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12/15 is equal to 4/5 so the probability would be 4/5 or 12/15 because you're calculating for boys over girls
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If there are 27 students total, and 12 of them are boys, the probability would have to be 12/27, simplified to 4/9 or 44%
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