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You have a box with wooden and mechanical pencils. The probability of drawing a wooden pencil is 3/5. If there are 25 pencils in the box, how many of them are wooden?

User ThomasM
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Answer:

15 wooden pencils

Explanation:

3/5 * 25

= (3 * 25)/5

= 15 wooden pencils

User Allisen
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Answer:

15

Explanation:

3/5 = wooden

2/5 = mechanical

User Konkret
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