Question

A drawer holds 6 white socks, 8 black socks, and 4 blue socks. If a sock is pulled from the drawer randomly, what is the probability that it will not be a blue sock?
A. 2 over 9
B. 1 over 7
C. 5 over 7
D. 7 over 9

Answer 1

D. 7 over 9

Answer 2

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Answer 3

Actually, the probability of something happening is equal to the number of favorable outcomes over total possible outcomes.
Here, total no. of socks is 6 + 8 + 4 = 18.
And the no. of favorable outcome is 6 + 8 = 14 because that's the no. of socks that are not blue, and that's why,
required probability is 14 over 18 = 7 over 9.