Question

The guide on a tour bus is giving a lecture to the 75 passengers about the historicalsites they are passing. The passengers consist of 27 men and 33 women, and therest are children. If the tour guide chooses one passenger at random to ask aquestion, what is the probability that the passenger will be a child?Show your work.

Answer 1

75 passengers

27 men 33 women x children

Number of chlidren = 75 - 27 - 33

= 15

Probability = number of children / number of passengers = 15/ 75

Probability = 0.2