Question

A bakery has 3 cookies and 30 other baked goods for sale. What is the probability that a randomly selected baked good will be a cookie?

Answer 1

`1/11.`

Explanation:

There are totally `3"(cookies)"+30"(other bakery items)="33` baked

good; so, `1` good can be selected in `33` ways.

There are, `3` cookies, and, out of this, `1` can be chosen in `3` ways.

Hence, the `"Reqd. Prob.="3/33=1/11.`