In exercises 31-34, a cooler at a picnic contains 100 cans of soda covered by ice. There are 30 cans of soda, 40 cans of orange soda, 10 cans of ginger ale,and 20 cans of root beer.
The cans are all the same size and shape. If one can is selected at random from the cooler,determine the probability that the soda selected is ginger ale.
10/100 = ?
To determine the probability of selecting a ginger ale can from the cooler, we need to know the total number of cans in the cooler and the number of ginger ale cans specifically.
Given in the problem, there are 100 cans of soda in the cooler. Out of these cans, there are 10 cans of ginger ale.
To calculate the probability, we use the following formula:
Probability = Number of favorable outcomes / Total number of outcomes
In this case, the favorable outcome is selecting a ginger ale can, and the total number of outcomes is selecting any can from the cooler.
Thus, the probability of selecting a ginger ale can is:
Probability = Number of ginger ale cans / Total number of cans
= 10 / 100
= 0.1
Therefore, the probability of selecting a ginger ale can from the cooler is 0.1 or 10%.