Question

the organic cafe has 15 pastries for sale, including 6 peach scones. what is the probability that a randomly selected pastry will be a peach scone?

Answer 1

Probability of getting Peach scone pastry = 3 / 5

Explanation:

Given:

Total number of pastries in store = 15

Number of Peach scone pastry = 6

Find:

Probability of getting Peach scone pastry

Computation:

Probability = Number of event / Total outcomes

Probability of getting Peach scone pastry = Number of Peach scone pastry / Total number of pastries in store

Probability of getting Peach scone pastry = 6 / 15

Probability of getting Peach scone pastry = 3 / 5