Question

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?

Answer 1

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

Answer 2

\[\frac{ 8 }{ 32 } = \frac{ 1 }{ 4 } or 0.25\]