Question

There are 14 cans of soup in a pantry, 7 of which contain vegetable beef soup. What is the probability that a randomly selected can will be vegetable beef soup? Write your answer as a fraction or whole number.​

Answer 1

1/2

Explanation:

There is a 7 in 14 chance of randomly selecting a can of vegetable beef soup. In fraction form, that would be a 7/14 chance. Simplifying the fraction would bring us to 1/2, our final answer.