On a shelf at a gaming store, there are five Sony Playstations and three Nintendo Wii consoles left. If one gaming system is sel

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ected at random, find the probability that the system is a Wii console.

2 answers:

blsea [12.9K] · Answer 1 · 2023-03-28T13:13:50+03:00

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Answer:

3/8, or 37.5%

Step-by-step explanation:

There are 8 different playing devices there.

There are only 3 Nintendo Wii consoles.

So, the probability is 3/8

Tpy6a [65] · Answer 2 · 2023-03-28T12:02:28+03:00

Step-by-step explanation:

a probability is always desired cases over total possible cases.

so, we have actually 8 systems (5 + 3) we can pick from.

therefore, the total possible cases are 8.

the desired case is in this question to pick one of the 3 Wii consoles.

the probability to pick a Wii is therefore

3/8 = 0.375