Question

DEBATE Mrs. Ramirez will divide her class of 24 into two teams for a debate. She writes the numbers 1 through 24 on individual pieces of paper and distributed them randomly, one to each student. The students with even numbers will be part of the red team and the students with odd numbers will be part of the blue team.

If a student is on the blue team, what is the probability that he or she was given the number 19?

Answer 1

1/12

Explanation:

Total Number of pieces of paper = 24

Total Number of pieces of paper with an odd number on it= 24/2 = 12

Total Number of pieces of paper with Number 19 = 1

Probability of a student on blue team having the Number 19 would be = Number of paper pieces with Number 19/Total number of pieces of paper with an odd number = 1/12

We take only the pieces of paper with an odd number on it as we already know the student is in the blue team so they had to have an odd number.