Question

You randomly pull a scrap from a bag of scraps. The bag has 3 pinkscraps, 4 white scraps, 4 yellow scraps, and 4 black scraps.What is the probability of not drawing a pink scrap? Write your answeras a fraction.

Answer 1

For this problem, we are told that a certain bag contains a few scraps of different colors. We need to determine the probability of drawing a scrap randomly that is not pink.

Whenever we need to calculate the probability of an event, we need to divide the number of possible favorable events by the total number of events. In our case, the favorable events are any scraps that are not pink, so we have:

`P(\text{ not pink})=(4+4+4)/(3+4+4+4)=(12)/(15)=(4)/(5)`

The probability of not drawing a pink scrap is 4/5.