The cooler at a picnic contained 4 apple juice boxes, 8 orange juice boxes, and 6 fruit punch juice boxes. A juice box is selected at random. What is the probability of the complement of choosing an orange juice box?

1 Answer
Jul 1, 2017

The probability is #55.bar5%#

Explanation:

The complement is the probability that event A will not happen.

Probability is the number of favorable outcomes (that match what you want) over the number of total outcomes. In this case, the number favorable outcomes is the total outcomes subtracted by the number of orange juice boxes.

#P%=(6+4+8-8)/(6+4+8#
#P%=10/18#

#P=55.bar5%#