Question

A jar contains 45 red candies and 60 black candies. Suppose a candy is selected at random. What are the odds against selecting a red candy?

Answer 1

Answer:

3:4.

Step-by-step explanation:

To work this out we need to find the highest multiple of 45 and 60.

15 is the largest number that goes into both of them so what we are going to do now is divide both number by 15.

45 divided by 15 = 3

60 divided by 15 = 4

Therefore the odds of selecting a red candy is 3:4.

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