Question

Daniel had a small bag of erasers. The bag contained 15 blue, 10 purple, 8 yellow, 13 green, and 4 red erasers. He picked one of the erasers from the bag.

What is the probability that Daniel picked a purple eraser?

Answer 1

ok first you have to figure out how many toatal erasers there are

Answer 2

so how many total are there?

Answer 3

Ok, well we first add the total erasers and the sum will be our denominator. What is the sum?

Answer 4

Pop out your calculator and add them numbers :c

Answer 5

50. I used an online one because lazy (:

Answer 6

but do you know why you have to add the numbers?

Answer 7

To use the sum as a denominator I said that before.

Answer 8

yes but why

Answer 9

I know why but I wanna know if she knows why

Answer 10

This is probability, we need the total to get it.

Answer 11

I don't know why, no. I want to punch math in the face.

Answer 12

Thank god this is my last question.

Answer 13

think of it as a smaller scale lets say we have quarters ok?

Answer 14

He's in the chat, leaving.

Answer 15

so you put 4 quarters into a bag one being blue, one being red, one being purple, and one being orange. follow?

Answer 16

now what are the chances of you pulling a blue one out?

Answer 17

since we have a toatal of 4 quarters its going to be something /4

Answer 18

That makes sense.

Answer 19

and we have ONE blue ONE orange ONE red ONE purple what are the chances of pulling out a purple one?

Answer 20

erm 1. but I'm wrong ha.

Answer 21

CORRECT!

Answer 22

1/4 that is

Answer 23

:O

Answer 24

since we have a total of 4 and there is only 1 purple one the chances are 1 out of 4 or 1/4

Answer 25

ew though it isn't an option haha

Answer 26

You see, the total amount is the denominator, the bottom number in the fraciotn

Answer 27

now your prob is just like my example but on a bigger scale

Answer 28

ok so

Answer 29

oh wait this is the example sorry c:

Answer 30

Indeed, add the erasers and use that as the bottom number.

Answer 31

how many blue erasers do you have in your problem?

Answer 32

You already did it so I guess we can continue:

?/50

Answer 33

? being the blue erasers

Answer 34

chib relax just take it slow so she understands it

Answer 35

15.

Answer 36

ok good now how many purple?

Answer 37

10.

Answer 38

now how many yellow green and red ones?

Answer 39

We only need to know the purple . . .

Answer 40

YEAH haha why are we going over all this?

Answer 41

dude just let me explain so she actually understands it and not just a answer

Answer 42

because I want you to understand how to get the answer

Answer 43

How do I find out how many purples there are?

Answer 44

Well you don't need to explain what the question answers itself.

Answer 45

I will if you would relax

Answer 46

10 purples, yeah.

Answer 47

or that Daniel will choose one my bad

Answer 48

just giving her a answer obvi isn't helping because shes posted about 4 of these questions

Answer 49

I just didn't ask for an explanation because I was focusing on finishing my assignment first lol

Answer 50

but that's not how open study works

Answer 51

YEAH I was told that.

Answer 52

lol :)

Answer 53

So everyone should stop attacking me and help because that is what I am here for (:

Answer 54

ive been trying to help -_-

Answer 55

But I don't understand why you're going over all the colors.

Answer 56

^^

Answer 57

It's literally taking me an hour for this one question...

Answer 58

just listen and youll see

Answer 59

answer my question now how many yellow green and red ones

Answer 60

CHIB HELP

Answer 61

Okay, there are 10 purples, right?

Answer 62

Yes.

Answer 63

And we know there are 50 total erasers so, what would our fraction be?

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Answer 64

10/50?

Answer 65

o.o

Answer 66

Yes! But is that the answer?

Answer 67

No.

Answer 68

Indeed! We need to simplify. Now what number can be divided into both 10 and 50?

Answer 69

The THING IS

Answer 70

I have never cared about school, math in particular and I never asked for help... so simplifying yeah um what. Plus my memory is bad.

Answer 71

Well, 10 is divisible between both 10 and 50. So let's divide:

10/10 = 1

50/10 = 5

What is our final answer now?

Answer 72

LOL that guy is giving me a gold medal now. I swearrrr.

Answer 73

I got one too.

Answer 74

Our final answer? :/

Answer 75

1/5

Answer 76

Yes ;3

Answer 77

I don't think you should drop out of school just for math. If you can't understand it, just ask for help. That will prevent you from dropping out. It's better to get a good education instead of quitting on it.

Answer 78

96% (: now I know all the stuff on the pretest. ew now I have assignments haha

Answer 79

Lol, good luck ;P

Answer 80

ya man why u wana drop out of school thats bad

Answer 81

I have reasons it isn't just for math c:

Answer 82

look i know school is boring but u know i have thing to think about so i dont drop out

Answer 83

You don't know a single thing about me so I'm gonna you know, go and you should too. This question is closed. Toodles x