Question

A board game has 6 blue spaces, 29 yellow spaces, 12 green spaces,and 18 red spaces. If you are equally likely to land on each space,what is the probability of landing on a green space? Give your answeras decimal rounded to the nearest thousandth.number of favorable outcomes Probability total number of possible outcomes

Answer 1

The probability of an event happening is the possible event divided by the total events.

The event we need to have is landing on a green space.

There are 12 green spaces in the board.

The total event is the sum of all individual events or the total number of spaces in the board.

This will be :

6 + 29 + 12 + 18 = 65

The probability will be :

`\text{prob}=\frac{\text{Event}}{\text{Total Event}}=(12)/(65)=0.1846`

The answer rounded to the nearest thousandth is 0.185