Question

A basket is filled with 12 white eggs, 4 brown eggs. Half of the white eggs are cracked.An egg is randomly selected from the basket. What is the probability that it is cracked, white egg?Write your answer in a fraction

Answer 1

The total number of eggs is 12 + 4 = 16

The number of cracked white eggs is 12/2 = 6

Probability is expressed as

number of favorable outcomes/number of total outcomes

Thus, the probability that it is cracked, white egg is

6/16

= 3/8