Question

Jacob makes the following statement:

"I have a 60% chance of being selected as the captain of the baseball team and a 20% chance of being elected student body president."

What is the probability that Jacob will be selected as the captain of the baseball team and will be elected student body president?

80%
40%
12%
8%

Answer 1

I'm kinda confused, is this B or C?

Answer 2

So when you have the word AND, you have to multiply

when you have the word OR, you would add

so
Probability of being captain = 60%
Probability of being president = 20%

probability of being captain AND president = 60% * 20%

Answer 3

So I would do 60 x 20?

Answer 4

careful, remember that it's 60 PERCENT
and percent means over 100

60% = 60/100 = 0.6

Answer 5

same thing for 20%

Answer 6

Okay

Answer 7

So 0.6 x 0.2?

Answer 8

Yep, adn then multiply by 100

Answer 9

yes, and you'll get a decimal

and then to make it into a percentage, you'll multiply by 100

Answer 10

I multipled 0.6 x 0.2 and got 0.12, then i multiplied by 100 to get 12

Answer 11

You got it!!

Answer 12

Okay, I get it. Thank you

Answer 13

To be clear, we're multiplying by 100%

remember how percent is over 100

100% would be 100/100
so we're basically multiplying by 1

and so when you multiply by 100%

0.12 * 100% = 12%

Answer 14

so essentially, you just multiply by 100 but you keep that percent symbol still with it

Answer 15

Yeah, i will remmeber that.

Answer 16

\(\color{#0cbb34}{\text{Originally Posted by}}\) @AZ
so essentially, you just multiply by 100 but you keep that percent symbol still with it
\(\color{#0cbb34}{\text{End of Quote}}\)
Okay.