Julie has 6 yellow pencils, 8 blue pencils, 3 red pencils, and 5 green pencils in a box. If Julie randomly selects 1 pencil, what is the probability that she will select 1 blue pencil?

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imstuck · Answer

Add up the total number of pencils.

imstuck · Answer

How many pencils is that total?

camerondoherty · Answer

Yep
Just add up 
6 + 8 + 3 + 5 = ?

imstuck · Answer

Actually it won't be 1 out of the total, because it doesn't reduce that far...but that's the idea!

camerondoherty · Answer

Then you see how many of those are blue
And that would be your numerator
Then the total would be your denominator

camerondoherty · Answer

And I meant to write something else, but it submitted far too early, I hit a wrong button cx