A company that sells pizzas is running a promotional special. Out of the next 100,000 boxes of pizza produced, randomly chosen boxes will be prize winners. There will be one grand prize winner who will receive $100,000. Five hundred first prize winners will get $1,000 and 3,000 second prize winners will get a free pizza.

What is the probability that the box of pizza you just bought will be a first prize winner?
A.1/500,000 B.1/200 C.1/100,000

Question

A company that sells pizzas is running a promotional special.  Out of the next 100,000 boxes of pizza produced, randomly chosen boxes will be prize winners.  There will be one grand prize winner who will receive $100,000.  Five hundred first prize winners will get $1,000 and 3,000 second prize winners will get a free pizza.
 
What is the probability that the box of pizza you just bought will be a first prize winner?
A.1/500,000 B.1/200 C.1/100,000

anonymous · Answer

This question is quite simple really :) You would write that as a fraction (first prize boxes/total boxes) in our case 500/100,000 then simplify :D

triciaal · Answer

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