Question

A bakery has 74 baked goods for sale, and 8 of them are muffins.

What is the probability that a randomly selected baked good will be a muffin?
Write your answer as a fraction or whole number.
P(muffin) =

Answer 1

`(8)/(74)`

Explanation:

Lets go over what we know:

-There are a total of 74 baked goods in the store

-There are 8 muffins in the store

This means that 8 of the 74 goods are muffins.

When we put this into a fraction, the specific quanitiy we are looking at goes in the numerator, and the total quanities goes in the denominator.

So in this case, 8 is our specific quanitiy, and 74 is the total quanitites:

So
`(8)/(74)` is our answer!

Hope this helps! :3