Question

Someone please me solve the problem, I tried multiple times but still didn't get the correct answer. :)

Answer 1

To get the porbability, first we need to count all the possible answers/solutions in our space.

The first box has 3 plain pencils + 9 pens = 12 items in this space

The second box has 5 color pencils + 3 crayons = 8 items in this space

The probability of getting a plain pencil from the first box could be represented by:

$\begin{gathered} \#\text{plain pencils / \# total items } \\ =\frac{3\text{ pencils}}{12\text{ items}}=\frac{1}{4} \end{gathered}$

Now, the probability of getting a color pencil from the second box is:

$=\frac{5\text{ color pencils}}{8\text{ items}}=\frac{5}{8}$