Question

A jar contains four yellow balls, six red balls, and eight blue balls. One ball is selected at random.

What is the probability that it is yellow?

Answer 1

4/18

Explanation:

1. you would first take all the number of colored balls and add them together

2. next, you would take the number of yellow balls/ to the total number of balls.

Answer 2

Explanation:

We are trying to see how likely we are to pick a yellow ball. So out of the total number of balls, we have 4 yellow balls (numerator). The total number of balls is 18 and so the probability of picking a yellow ball is 4/18