Question

A garden store has the following miscellaneous flower bulbs in a basket. 6 amaryllis, 7 daffodils, 4 lilies, and 3 tulips. A customer bought four bulbs from the basket, one from each type of flower. If the next customer selects 1 of the remaining bulbs at random, what is the probability that the customer will get an amaryllis bulb?

Answer 1

[AI-generated answer — Bot GPT 3.5]

There are a total of 6 + 7 + 4 + 3 = 20 bulbs in the basket.

The first customer took 4 bulbs, one from each type, which means there are 20 - 4 = 16 bulbs remaining.

Since there are now 16 bulbs left to choose from, and only 6 of them are amaryllis bulbs, the probability that the next customer will select an amaryllis bulb is 6/16 = 3/8 = 0.375.

Therefore, the probability that the customer will get an amaryllis bulb is 37.5%.