Question

Monica has a jewelry box of earrings. This box contains 4 pairs of plain gold earrings, 11 pairs of gold earrings with diamonds, 3 pairs of plain silver earrings, and 5 pairs of silver earrings with diamonds. If she picks a pair of earrings at random from the box, what is the probability that she picks a pair with diamonds?

Answer 1

Firstly,
Count how many earrings she has in total.

Answer 2

Secondly,
Count how many Diamond Earrings she has.

Answer 3

Thirdly,
Put the number of Diamond Earrings over the total number of Earrings she has;

Answer 4

Lastly,
So it looks like there are 10 pairs of earrings with Diamonds and 19 earrings in total. So put the 10 over the 19 to get your final answer as;

\[10/19\]