5/12(poetry) + 2/5(biographies) = 25/60 + 24/60 = 49/60
60/60 - 49/60= 11/60
11/60 are the remainder of the books in the shipment.
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One in 1200 are not particularly good odds. On the other hand, winning the lotto is 1 chance in 13,000,000 which if you've ever played the lotto you know that those odds are good enough to insure that if you played for the rest of your life and you are 18 not expect to live to 80 and you have 104 [given 2 draw a week] chances of winning per year, it likely won't happen. One in 1200 is better but still not good, especially with only 1 draw.
3
As a fraction her probability of winning is 1/2000 which is 0.000833333 as a decimal. You can put that in as
1
÷
1200
=
if you are not sure how your calculator works.
2
Sample Space = {1,2,3,4 .... 1198,1199,1200}
The outcome depends on sophies number. Either 1 number can be chosen or all of them can.
1
The sample space is the integers from 1 to 1200 inclusive.
To find the perpendicular slope, we simply flip the fraction (aka reciprocal) and flip the sign (go from positive to negative, or vice versa)
So for problem 1a) we flip the fraction to go from 4/3 to 3/4. Then we flip the sign to go from +3/4 to -3/4. The final answer to problem 1a) is -3/4
The answer to problem 1b) is 7/3 following the same basic steps: -3/7 ---> -7/3 ---> 7/3
The answer to problem 1c) is -1/4. You can think of 4 as 4/1 which flips to 1/4 and it becomes -1/4
I'll let you try out the rest 1d and 1e. Tell me what you get so I can check your answers.
