Question

You spin the spinner shown below once. Each sector shown has an equal area.

What is P(beaver)?

Answer 1

0.8

Explanation:

We see that there are 5 equal sections, 4 of which have beavers on them.

P(beaver) basically means that we want to find the probability of landing on a beaver; in other words, we're looking for a fraction:

(# sections you can land on a beaver) / (total # of sections)

Here, the number of sections you can land on a beaver is 4, while the total number of sections is 5. So, P(beaver) = 4/5.

Thus, the answer is 4/5, which can be written as the decimal 0.8.

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