Question

Ill give you 20 poinyt please help and gte it right!!!!

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

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Ill give you 20 poinyt please help and gte it right!!!!

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?

12%

Answer 2

Your answer would be 12%. This is because the 'and' rule for probability, the one that is used when we want to determine P(A) and P(B), is to multiply. This means we can convert both percentages to decimals, which gives us 0.6 and 0.2, and then multiply them to get 0.12 as our probability. 0.12 as a percentage is 12%, so that is your answer.
I hope this helps!