Question

In the petting zoo at the State Fair, the probability of randomly selecting a sheep from among all the animals in the zoo is 0.6. If

the rest of the animals are goats, and there are 80 animals in all, how many are goats?

Answer 1

32 goats

Explanation:

If the probability of selecting a sheep is 0.6, then the probability of selecting a goat is 1 - 0.6 = 0.4.
This means that 40% of the animals are goats.

To find the actual number of goats, we can set up an equation:

0.4 x 80 = number of goats

Simplifying this equation, we get:

32 = number of goats

Therefore, there are 32 goats in the petting zoo, and the remaining animals (48) are sheep.

there is another way to solve this problem.

Since we know that the total number of animals in the petting zoo is 80 and that 60% of them are sheep, we can calculate the number of sheep as follows:

Number of sheep = 0.6 x 80 = 48

We can then calculate the number of goats by subtracting the number of sheep from the total number of animals:

Number of goats = 80 - 48 = 32

So, we get the same answer as before, which is that there are 32 goats in the petting zoo.

Answer 2

Explanation:

.6 of the animals are sheep .6 * 80 = 48 are sheep

the rest of the 80 are goats = 32 goats