Question

PLZ HELP A pantry contains cans of several different types of soup.

vegetable beef 22
black bean 3
chicken tortilla 12
cream of mushroom 1
minestrone 4

What is the probability that a randomly selected can will be black bean soup?

Write your answer as a fraction or whole number.

Answer 1

3/42 or 1/14 if they have you reducing the number

Explanation:

There are only 3 cans of black bean soup in the whole pantry. 3 is our numerator.

The denominator will be the total number of cans in the pantry, so

22 + 3 + 12 + 1 + 4 = 42

If you took a can of soup out of the pantry 42 times, 3 times it would be black bean soup