Question

A sports store has a container of handballs: 4 blue, 5 red, 8 yellow 9 white and 11 green. If one ball is picked from the container at random,what is the probability that it will be yellow?

Answer 1

8/37

Explanation:

The total number of handballs in the container is

4+5+8+9+11 = 37

Since there are 8 yellow handballs, the probability of selecting a yellow handball is 8/37.