Showing posts with label answeringRose'sprobabilityquestion. Show all posts
Showing posts with label answeringRose'sprobabilityquestion. Show all posts

Saturday, January 22, 2011

Answering Rose's Probability question

The question was What is the p(white) marble? Express as fraction, ratio and percent.




















There are eight marbles and there are 4 white marbles, so the favorable outcome is 4 over possible outcome which is 8

Fraction: 4/8 but you can still simplify it so it is 1/2 because you can divide 8 & 4 by two.

Ratio: 1:2

percent: 50% because if you divide 1 by 2 you get .5 then you turn it into a percent.