Question

Jon has 8 packets of soup in his cupboard, but all the labels are missing. he knows that there are 5 packets of tomato soup and 3 packets of mushroom soup. he opens three packets at random. work out the probability that all three packets are the same variety of soup.​

Answer 1

37.5%

Explanation:

If all were the same from opening 3, it would all have to be mushroom soup. This would look like: desired outcome/total quantity: 3/8 = 0.375 = 37.5%