Question

Michael is organizing a game of chance for his class. He asks each student to pick a ribbon from a bag and then put it back into the bag. The bag has 12 yellow ribbons, 7 red ribbons, and 3 blue ribbons. If Jane picks a ribbon, what is the probability that the ribbon will be yellow and what is the likelihood of this event?


A.The probability is 1, and the event is certain.
B.The probability is 3/11 , and the event is likely.
C.The probability is 6/11 , and the event is unlikely.
D The probability is 6/11 , and the event is neither likely nor unlikely.

Answer 1

B is the answer not 100% sure If i was you I’d wait for another response and see it or matched mine

Answer 2

Answer: Hello there!

We know that the bag has:

12 yellow ribbons, 7 red ribbons, and 3 blue ribbons.

this is a total of 22 ribbons.

The probability of picking a yellow ribbon is equal to the number of yellow ribbons divided by the total amount of ribbons:

this is 12/22, that can be simplified to 6/11

6/11 is equal to 0.545

this is equivalent to 54.5%, then this an almost even chance, so is neither likely or unlikely.

Then the right answer is option D "The probability is 6/11, and the event is neither likely nor unlikely."