Question

A university class has 16 students enrolled, 4 of whom are freshmen.

What is the probability that a randomly chosen student will be a freshman?
Write your answer as a fraction or whole number.
P(freshman)

Answer 1

1/4

Explanation:

The total number of students = 16

4 are freshman

Therefore,

The probability of choosing a freshman is 4/16 which reduces to 1/4