Question

a silverware drawer contains 9 forks,12 spoons ,and 7 knives. one peice of silver ware is selected at a random from the drawer

what is the probability that it is a spoon?

express your answer to the nearsest hundreth

Answer 1

@ganeshie8

Answer 2

@ganeshie8

Answer 3

Add 9+12+7=?
then since there is 12 spoons the pobbility will be 12 over the sum of all 3

Answer 4

wait wat @happy_to_help

Answer 5

There is a total of 28 things in the drawer
There is 12 spoons
the probality of getting a spoon is
12 over 28

Answer 6

the answer is 0.428 but it says raund to the hundeths place and i kinda dont know how to round up

Answer 7

@happy_to_help

Answer 8

4 is in the hundreths place but since the number after it is less then 5 i think it stays the same.
The correct answer should be 0.400

Answer 9

i got .43