Your having dinner at a restaurant that serves 5 kinds of pasta (spaghetti, bow ties, fettuccine, ravioli, and macaroni) in 4 di
fferent flavors (tomato sauce,cheese sauce, meat sauce, and olive oil). If you randomly pick your kind of pasta and flavor, what is the probability that you’ll end up with bow ties, cheese sauce, or both?
The probability of randomly picking one of those dishes is <span><span>8</span></span><span> out of </span><span><span>20</span></span><span>, or 8/20. We can simplify that down to 2/5. </span>