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The rosebushes in Pattie's Plant Store have the following colors: • 20% yellow blooms. • 50% red blooms. • 30% pink blooms. If George selected a rosebush at random today, what is the probability that it will produce yellow blooms?

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Final answer:

The probability that George will select a rosebush with yellow blooms from Pattie's Plant Store is 20% because that is the percentage of yellow-blooming rosebushes available.

Step-by-step explanation:

If George selected a rosebush at random from Pattie's Plant Store, the probability that it will produce yellow blooms is the percentage of yellow blooms among all rosebushes. Given that 20% of the rosebushes have yellow blooms, we can express this probability as a decimal (0.20), a fraction (1/5), or simply use the given percentage directly.

To calculate the probability, we can use the formula:

Probability of an event = (Number of favorable outcomes) / (Total number of outcomes)

In this context, because the 'outcomes' refer to the rosebush color options and the 'favorable outcome' is selecting a yellow bloom, George's probability to randomly select a yellow rosebush is 0.20 (or 20%), which is the given percentage of yellow blooms at the store.

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the answer to that is one fifth

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