Question

A box contains 4 oranges, 9 apples, and 3 pears. Liliana selects a piece of fruit from the box at random.

What is the probability that she selects an orange or a pear?

Answer 1

hint:

(number of oranges + pears)/(total number of fruit)

Answer 2

A .\[\frac{ 1 }{ 20}\]

Answer 3

B. \[\frac{ 3 }{ 64 }\]

Answer 4

C. \[\frac{ 7 }{ 16 }\]

Answer 5

D. \[\frac{ 9 }{ 16}\]

Answer 6

How many oranges and pears are there together?

Answer 7

12 ^

Answer 8

are you sure?

read the problem again

Answer 9

oops i added apples my bad

Answer 10

7

Answer 11

Right, now how many total fruit are there?

Answer 12

add all the fruit together ? right :3

Answer 13

Yeah

Answer 14

okay the original is 4+9+3 is 16
7 + 9+3 is 19

Answer 15

No, you just need the original

Answer 16

So you have 7, and you have 16, so what's the answer?

Answer 17

C. \[\frac{ 7 }{ 16 }\]

Answer 18

Yup :)