Question

The baker made a batch of chocolate chip, oatmeal raisin, and sugar cookies. If P(chocolate chip) = 0.25, interpret the likelihood of randomly selecting a chocolate chip cookie from the batch.

Equally likely and unlikely
Likely
Unlikely
This value is not possible to represent probability of a chance event.

Answer 1

Explanation:

Assuming the oatmeal raisin and sugar cookies have an equal probability, it is less likely that a chocolate chip cookie will be picked since the other two cookies have a 37.5% chance of being picked. Despite this, it is still both likely and unlikely since it is only a small difference.

To conclude, it depends on what your teacher or textbook think. If they think a 12.5% difference between the other two cookies means that chocolate chip is unlikely, then it's unlikely. In my opinion, it is not equally but near equally likely and unlikely.