Question

Anita works at a local news station and needs to decide which news story to report first. Of the news stories, 3 are local, 4 are international, and 5 national. The stories are equally important so anita randomly orders the stories. What is the probability that the first story is a national story. Give your answer as a fraction

Answer 1

Answer: 5/12

In order to solve this, you would add up all of the news stories she has and then put the number of national stories on top of the total news stories to give you 5/12. (There’s a total of 12 news stories and 5 of them are national.)