Question

1) A class consists of 25 girls and 15 boys. If a student is randomly selected, what is the probability that a girl is chosen?

Answer 1

25/40 which simplifies to 5/8

Explanation:

there are 40 children in the class in total(25 girls+15 boys )

the number of girls is 25

so the probability is the number of girls/the whole class

which is 25/40

and this can be simplified to give 5/8