Question

a cooler at a picnic contains 100 cans of soda covered by ice. There are 30 cans of cola, 40 cans of orange soda, 10 cans of ginger ale, and 20 cans of root beer. The cans are all the same size and shape. If one can is selected at random from the cooler, determine the probability that the soda selected is cola or orange soda.

Answer 1

\[\frac{ 70 }{ 100 }=\frac{ 7 }{ 10 }\]

Answer 2

hello, how did you manage to get that answer?
did you add the cola and orange?

Answer 3

yeah, just add the cola and orange and divide by 100, so it could also be .7

Answer 4

ok, ok thank you, I thought it was like that but I was confused. :>)

Answer 5

sure, anytime.