Tania has 6 tiles with pictures of plants and 3 tiles with pictures of animals. Tania keeps all the tiles on a mat with the pictures hidden and mixes them up. She then turns one tile face up and finds the picture of a plant on it. She removes this tile from the mat and turns over another tile without looking. What is the probability that the second tile that Tania turns over has a plant on it?

A)33.3%
B)50.0%
C)62.5%
D)66.7%

Question

Tania has 6 tiles with pictures of plants and 3 tiles with pictures of animals. Tania keeps all the tiles on a mat with the pictures hidden and mixes them up. She then turns one tile face up and finds the picture of a plant on it. She removes this tile from the mat and turns over another tile without looking. What is the probability that the second tile that Tania turns over has a plant on it?

 A)33.3%
 B)50.0%
 C)62.5%
 D)66.7%

anonymous · Answer

6plants
3animals
Flips one plant and removes it so now you have 5 plant and 3 animal. 5+3=8 
probability of plant so divide 5/8= .625 or 62.5%

anonymous · Answer

thank you sooo much