Question

2 questions in one!

Suppose Nigel has a bag of colored wristbands, and he chooses one without looking. The bag contains a total of 25 wristbands and 6 of the wristbands are blue.
a. What is the probability that Nigel will choose a blue wristband?
b. Is it likely, unlikely, or neither likely nor unlikely that Nigel will choose a blue wristband?

Answer 1

Probability, eh?

Explanation:

To figure out how likely an event is, we just put the number of the blue bands over the total number of 'other' bands.

Pretty easy!

`(6)/(25)`

(or do you want it in percent?)

`24%`%

(I remember there was a weird notation for these things, but I forgot it)

It is unlikely he will choose a blue band, as it is much more likely he will choose a 'other' band.

Remember, the smallest number for an event will make it the most unlikeliest to happen out of all the others.

Hope this helps!

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