Question

2. Sundaes come with vanilla or chocolate ice cream. The toppings are hot fudge and

caramel. The final choice is whipped cream or marshmallow.
• What is the probability of getting a sundae with vanilla ice cream, caramel, and
marshmallow?
● Draw a tree diagram to find the solution.
• Justify mathematically that your answer is correct.

Answer 1

Explanation:

The tree that shows the correct combination of one flavor of ice cream and one topping is the the first tree.

What is tree diagram ?

A tree diagram is a tool in the fields of general mathematics, probability, and statistics that helps calculate the number of possible outcomes of an event or problem, and to cite those potential outcomes in an organized way.

Tree diagrams, also known as probability trees or decision trees, are quite versatile and may be useful in many fields, including finance.

A tree diagram lets a user start at a single point and make mutually exclusive decisions or experience mutually exclusive events to follow a path down the branches of the tree. Using a tree diagram is simple once you assign the appropriate values to each node.

From the question, and the definition it is clear that vanilla splits into fudge and caramel and chocolate to sprinkles.

Hence A is the correct option.