Question

Alice has a basket containing 6 red socks, 4 blue socks, and 12 white socks. Find the theoretical probability that Alice will randomly select a red sock from the basket.

Answer 1

Red socks = 6
Blue socks = 4
White socks = 12
total # of socks = 22

So, the probability of choosing a red sock from the total is: total number of red socks over the whole total of the socks.

$\frac{6}{22} = \frac{3}{11}$ is the P(red)

Answer 2

The probability is 6/22 because there is 6 red socks and that would make it so there could be 1 out of six red socks could be picked