a drawing is held every Friday in Ms. Peterson's class to determine who feeds the pet gerbil for the next week if there are 15 g

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Arte-miy333 [17]

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a drawing is held every Friday in Ms. Peterson's class to determine who feeds the pet gerbil for the next week if there are 15 g

irls and 13 boys in the class what is the probability that a boy name would be selected

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koban [17] · Answer 1 · 2022-05-16T13:20:34+03:00

There are (15 + 13) = 28 students in Ms.Peterson's class.

13 of them are boys.

The probability of drawing a boy's name is

(boys) / (total) =

<em> </em> 13 / 28 = <em> 0.4643...</em> = 46.4% . (rounded)