Question

There are 5 cards with a picture of a rose and 3 cards with a picture of a daisy. Alia keeps all the cards down on a table with the pictures hidden and mixes them up. She then turns over one card and finds the picture of a rose on it. She removes this card from the table and turns over another card without looking. What is the probability that the card that Alia turns over has a rose on it? (1 point)

Group of answer choices

4 over 5

5 over 7

4 over 7

5 over 8

Answer 1

P = 4/7

Explanation:

There are 5 cards with a picture of a rose and 3 cards with a picture of a daisy.

Then we have a total of 8 cards.

Now Alia turns over one card, and this card has a picture of a rose, then she removes it.

This means that now there are 4 cards with a picture of a rose and 3 cards with a picture of a daisy, so now we have a total of 7 cards.

We want to find the probability that the next turned card has also a rose on it.

This will be equal to the quotient between the number of cards with a rose on it (4 cards) and the total number of cards (7)

Then the probability is:

P = 4/7