Question

Help medal! Joey’s sock drawer is unorganized and contains 7 black dress socks, 7 black ankle socks, 6 brown dress socks, and 2 brown ankle socks. What is the probability that Joey will blindly reach into his sock drawer and pull out a sock that is brown or a dress sock?
A. 15/22
B. 4
C. 3/11
D. 21/22

Answer 1

how many socks are there total?

Answer 2

22?

Answer 3

Yupp. so the question asks about a brown sock, how many brown socks are there total?

Answer 4

8/22?

Answer 5

but now you have to add in the black dress socks as well to the 8

Answer 6

so black dress socks would be 13/22?

Answer 7

nope, there are 7 black dress socks so you would add that to your 8 to get...?

Answer 8

oh! 16

Answer 9

no, 7+8=?

Answer 10

omg I am sorry! 15

Answer 11

haha youre fine :) so your answer would be 15/22 since you cant reduce it at all :)

Answer 12

thank you!!!

Answer 13

no prob :D