Question

Joseph buys a bag of 60 pieces of taffy. In the bag, there are 6 cinnamon pieces, 18 raspberry pieces, 12 key lime pieces, and the rest are candy apple pieces. If he randomly draws one piece of taffy, what is the probability that it is a piece of key lime taffy?
A. 0.1
B. 0.4
C. 0.02
D. 0.2

Answer 1

To find the probability of Joseph picking a key lime piece of taffy you will create a fraction with the number of possible outcomes over the total possible outcomes.

# of key lime taffies              12
total # of taffies         =         60

12/60 = 1/5

1/5 = 0.2

Joseph has a 0.2 probability of picking a key lime taffy.