Question

A small bag of jellybeans contains 2 lemon, 5 cherry, 1 lime, and 4 blueberry jelly beans. If evin chooses a jelly bean from the bag without looking, what is the probability it will be cherry or blueberry?

F 5/12
G 7/12
H 3/4
J 1/4

Answer 1

3/4 or 75%

Explanation:

The total number of jellybeans inside of the bag is 12.

There are 5 cherry jellybeans and 4 blueberry jellybeans.

In total, cherry and blueberry jellybeans are 9/12 of the bag.

9/12 = 3/4