Question
A basket is filled with white eggs and brown eggs. Half of the brown eggs are cracked.
An egg is randomly selected from the basket. What is the probability that it is a cracked, brown egg?
Write your answer as a fraction
An egg is randomly selected from the basket. What is the probability that it is a cracked, brown egg?
Write your answer as a fraction
Answers
no way to tell, but if there are 2b brown eggs and w white eggs, then
P(cracked brown) = b/(2b+a)
P(cracked brown) = b/(2b+a)
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