Question

Justin played a game with 24 floating plastic ducks each with a colored sticker on the bottom. There are an equal number of red blue and green stickers on the set of ducks. What is the probability that one duck chosen at random will have a red or blue sticker

Answer 1

Because there are 24 ducks total and they are separated equally into three categories, we can figure out that there are 24 / 3 = 8 ducks of each color. This makes the probability of pulling a red/blue duck would be (8*2)/24 or 16/24. If we want this to be a percentage we can just solve 16/24*100 and it will give us 66.66...%