Question

On a game show, a contestant randomly chooses a chip from a bag that contains numbers and stripes. The theoretical probability of choosing a strike is 3/5. The bag contains 9 strikes. How many chips are in the bag?

Answer 1

*I'm going to assume you meant stripes.

Answer:

So in total there are 15 chips in the bag.

9 of them are stripes and 6 are numbers.

Step-by-step explanation:

So there are 9 stripes in the bag.

The probability of getting a stripe is 3/5

This means that for every 5 chips that the contestant pulls out, 3 of them should be stripes. This also means 2 of them are numbers.

So we know that 9 of the chips in the bag are stripes. To find the total number of stripes we should divide 9 by 3/5:

$\frac{9}{\frac{3}{5}} = 9 * \frac{5}{3}$

So we get:

$\frac{45}{3} = 15$