Question

When trying to find the probability of a white ball being drawn from a bag containing 4 white balls, 3 black balls, and 5 red balls, how many desired outcomes are there?

Answer 1

There are 4 desired outcomes.

Explanation:

You want to select a white ball from a bag of balls. So the number of desired outcomes is the number of white balls in the bag.

In this problem:

Ball being drawn from a bag containing 4 white balls, 3 black balls, and 5 red balls

4 white balls

So there are 4 desired outcomes.