Question

A bag contains 6 Purple sticks, 5 Orange sticks, 4 black sticks and you ask a friend to pick a stick at random. What is the probability that the stick will be purple?

And thx

Answer 1

9 (partly to do with the amount of sticks)

Hope this helps :)

Answer 2

`(2)/(5)`

Explanation:

probability (P) is calculated as

P =
`(favourableoutcome)/(numberofpossibleoutcomes)`

Here favourable outcome is a purple brick

number of possible outcomes = 6 + 5 + 4 = 15

P(purple brick ) =
`(6)/(15)` =
`(2)/(5)`