Question

kyle has a container that holds 60 paperclips. half of the paperclips are metal. the other half are colored plastic: 10 red 10 green 10 blue. if kyle randomly takes a paperclip out of the container, what is the probability that the paperclip will be red or green

Answer 1

2/6 or 33.33%

Because 20/60 is also 2/6 and covert to percent

Answer 2

1/3 or 33%

Explanation:

To solve we will first add the amount of red and green paperclips.

10 + 10 = 20

Then we will divide this by the total amount of paperclips.

20/60 = 1/3 or 0.33...

0.33 is equivalent to 33%