Question

at the town flea market, monica purchases a big box of used tennis balls to throw to her dog. she scoops some tennis balls out of the box at random. here are the colors of the balls: yellow, blue, yellow, red, green, blue, yellow, red, yellow, green, yellow, red, green based on the data, what is the probability of choosing a yellow tennis ball from the box? write your answer as a fraction or whole number. submit

Answer 1

5/13

Explanation:

You want the probability of choosing yellow from a box containing tennis balls of the colors yellow, blue, yellow, red, green, blue, yellow, red, yellow, green, yellow, red, green.

Yellow

The list has 13 colors, of which 5 are yellow. If a ball is chosen at random, the probability of it being yellow is equal to the fraction of balls that are yellow: 5/13.

The probability of choosing a yellow tennis ball is 5/13.

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