You put the names of all the students in your class in a paper bag. There are 16 boys and 18 girls. If you draw a name at random, what is P(boy’s name)?

Question

You put the names of all the students in your class in a paper bag. There are 16 boys and 18 girls. If you draw a name at random, what is P(boy’s name)?

A.8.9
B.9/8
C.9/17
D.8/17

Answer 1

D. 8/17

There are 16 boys and 18 girls, so a total of 16 + 18 = 34 students in the class. The probability of drawing a boy's name would be the number of boys (16) divided by the total number of students (34), which is 16/34 = 8/17.