Question

What is the probability of selecting a spinner and a highlighter that are the same color?

Answer 1

To find the probability of this event we have to divide the favorable outcomes by the total of outcomes:

`P=(favoutcomes)/(totaloutcomes)`

In this case, there are only 2 favorable outcomes, which are that both spinner and highlighter are blue or green. There are 18 total outcomes, the probability is:

`P=(2)/(18)=(1)/(9)`

The answer is 1/9.