Ms Baker students right word problems each week and she selects one soon as work probably to display on a bulletin board each week each student name is placed in a bag from Miss Baker draws a night what is the probability that in eighth grade student will not be selected explain your process and give your answer as a percentage or simplify fraction
To determine the probability that an eighth grade student will not be selected, we first need to know how many students are in the eighth grade class. Let's say there are 25 students in the class.
Since each student's name is placed in the bag, the total number of outcomes when Miss Baker draws a name is the total number of students in the class, which is 25.
If we want to find the probability that an eighth grade student will not be selected, we need to determine the number of outcomes where an eighth grade student is not selected. Since there are 25 students in total and only one student will be selected, the number of outcomes where an eighth grade student is not selected is 25 - 1 = 24.
Therefore, the probability that an eighth grade student will not be selected is 24/25.
To express this probability as a percentage, we divide 24 by 25 and multiply by 100:
24/25 * 100 = 96%
So, the probability that an eighth grade student will not be selected is 96%.