Question

tony has $1.50 in quarters, $0.50 in dimes and $0.70 in nickels. What is the probability of selecting a nickel from the pile of all the coins. NOTE from me please if you can explain it to me so i can understand please thank you

Answer 1

How many quarters does tony have?

Answer 2

6 right

Answer 3

How many dimes?

Answer 4

5

Answer 5

How many nickels?

Answer 6

14??

Answer 7

How many coins in all?

Answer 8

14+5+6= 25

Answer 9

So if you select one coin from a pile of 25 coins and 14 of them are nickels, what is the probability that you will select a nickel?

Answer 10

do you divide

Answer 11

or make it into a fraction

Answer 12

You write the appropriate fraction.

Answer 13

What is it?

Answer 14

so its 14/25 but you cant really divide anything witht the two numbers since you cant divide them with a number

Answer 15

The probability is 14/25