Question

The animal shelter has both male and female Labrador retrievers in yellow, brown, or black. There is and equal number of each kind. What is the probability of choosing a female yellow Labrador retriever? Show your work.

Answer 1

Answer:

Step-by-step explanation:

There are choices when it comes to color (3). Then there is the choice between a boy dog or a girl dog (2). Multiply the number of colors by the number of genders. (6)

When choosing a dog from random, you can either choose:

Brown/M

Brown/F

Black/M

Black/F

Yellow/M

Yellow/F

(This list is called the Sample Space, a list of all possible outcomes)

Because the text says that all types of dogs are found in even numbers, it would not matter if there was 6, 12, 18, ... amount of dogs.

When looking at this sample space, you can see that the chance of choosing a Yellow/F dog, is 1 in 6.