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twelve students have an equally likely chance of being selected in a drawing at school. eight are girls and four are boys. what is the probability that a boy will be selected?

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33% chance

Explanation:

there are 12 students total and there are two groups of students, boys and girls, 8 girls 4 boys so we take that and convert it to a fraction which would make 2/3 girls and 1/3 boys, so that would mean that boys have a 33% chance of being selected

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