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OpenStudy (anonymous):

there are 7 healthy blue fish, 3 unhealthy yellow fish. 8 healthy green fish, and 3 unhealthy blue fish in a tank. what is the prohability of catching a healthy fish?

OpenStudy (anonymous):

answer as a percentage rounded to the nearest tenth please >.<

OpenStudy (fifciol):

there are 7 + 8 healthy fish out of 21 all fish

OpenStudy (anonymous):

15 healthy fish c:

OpenStudy (anonymous):

do we divide 15 to 21?

OpenStudy (fifciol):

yes :)

OpenStudy (anonymous):

and we get a big percentage 0.714285714

OpenStudy (fifciol):

multiply by 100

OpenStudy (fifciol):

this is percentage: 71 %

OpenStudy (anonymous):

so i multiply 100 x 71?

OpenStudy (anonymous):

actually no we don't :p

OpenStudy (fifciol):

it's big because you have 15 healthy fish and only 6 unhealthy

OpenStudy (anonymous):

okay so they want us to round the answer to the nearest 10 so we round 71?

OpenStudy (fifciol):

to the nearest tenth is 71,4 %

OpenStudy (anonymous):

thank you c:

OpenStudy (fifciol):

yw :)

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