Felicia had a small bag of jelly beans. The bag contained 2 green, 10 pink, 5 red, 8 yellow, and 7 orange candies. She picked one of the jelly beans from the bag.

What is the probability that Felicia picked a yellow jelly bean?

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Felicia had a small bag of jelly beans. The bag contained 2 green, 10 pink, 5 red, 8 yellow, and 7 orange candies. She picked one of the jelly beans from the bag. 

What is the probability that Felicia picked a yellow jelly bean?

anonymous · Answer

it calculated as a ratio:
number of yellow jelly beans / total number of beans

anonymous · Answer

$$\frac{ 8 }{ 32 } = \frac{ 1 }{ 4 } or  0.25$$