Maggie has 7 tiles with pictures of plants and 2 tiles with pictures of animals. Maggie 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 second tile that Maggie turns over has a plant on it?

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mrragingami · Answer

I have no idea what to do

mrragingami · Answer

WHY ISNT ANYONE HELPING ME!!!???

welshfella · Answer

After picking out the tile with a plant picture  how many tiles of plants and animals are left?

welshfella · Answer

I'll help you but it will benefit you to get involved as much as possible in the solution.

mrragingami · Answer

6?

mrragingami · Answer

Right?

welshfella · Answer

6 plants and 2 animal tiles

welshfella · Answer

now we want probability of picking a plant tile from these 8 tiles

this probability   =  number of plant tiles / total number of tiles

and that is your answer.

mrragingami · Answer

Oh so were done

mrragingami · Answer

The answer for the question are 
22.2%
28.6%
65.0%
75.0%

welshfella · Answer

so which one  did you get 

youll get a fraction when you do the divide 
To get a percentage multiply  the fraction by 100.

welshfella · Answer

number of plant tiles = ?
total number of tiles =  ?

See above.

welshfella · Answer

i cant tell you the answer
do the division:-    number of plant tiles  / total times 
then multiply the result by 100.