Jessie selects a skirt from the closet randomly without looking and then tosses the fair coin. What is the probability that she will select a yellow skirt and that the coin will land tails up?
1 over 20
1 over 10
1 over 8
1 over 5

Question

Jessie selects a skirt from the closet randomly without looking and then tosses the fair coin. What is the probability that she will select a yellow skirt and that the coin will land tails up?
 1 over 20
 1 over 10
 1 over 8
 1 over 5

blm1 · Answer

Color of 
Skirt	Number
Yellow	
5
Red
8
Green	
4
Pink	
3

blm1 · Answer

I got 5/40

blm1 · Answer

Is that 1/8

mysticfury · Answer

first we need to set it up, we do this by adding together all the skirts so 5+8+4+3 = 20

were looking for yellow so 5/20 is what we got.. thats 1/4..... now its a 1/2 chance to get tails...
 so we need to add them up, also known as multiplying them.
 to get 1/8 as our answer and yes 5/40 is 1/8

blm1 · Answer

Thank you. I did the first steps but I just didn't know how to make 5/40 one of the answers. <3