Question

Marissa is drawing coins from a bag that contains 5 pennies (yellow), 4 nickels (green), 5 dimes

(red), and 2 quarters (blue). Test your ideas by creating a bag of coins. Use the various colors
to represent pennies, nickels, dimes, and quarters. Homework Help
What is the probability that she will draw a nickel? Write your answer as a fraction, as a
decimal, and as a percent.

Answer 1

`(4)/(16)=(1)/(4)=0.25=25\%`

Explanation:

Total number of coins in the bag = 5 + 4 + 5 + 2 = 16 coins

Number of nickels in the bag = 4

We have to find the probability that Marissa draws a nickels from the bag.

Probability is defined as the ratio of Number of "Favorable Outcomes" to "Total number of possible outcomes"

In this case total number of possible outcomes is the total number of coins which is 16.

Favorable/Desires outcome is drawing a Nickle from the bag which are 4 in number. So, number of favorable outcomes is 4

Therefore, the probability that she will draw a nickel =
`(4)/(16)=(1)/(4)=0.25=25\%`