Carcass wrote:
If a bag contains 18 yellow tiles and 22 black tiles, what is the probability that a tile selected at random from the bag will be yellow?
A. \(\frac{1}{10}\)
B. \(\frac{9}{20}\)
C. \(\frac{11}{20}\)
D. \(\frac{9}{11}\)
E. \(\frac{11}{9}\)
Number of YELLOW tiles in bag =
18TOTAL number of tiles in bag = 18 + 22 =
40P(selected tile is yellow) = (# of possible outcomes in which the selected tile is yellow)/(TOTAL # of possible outcomes)
=
18/
40= 9/20
Answer: B
Cheers,
Brent