There are 25 balls in a jar. Twelve (12) balls are red, 10 balls are blue, and 3 balls are white. Which of the following describes the likelihood of randomly picking a white ball?(1 point)

Question

Responses

impossible
impossible

less likely than not
less likely than not

likely
likely

very unlikely

Answer 1

To determine the likelihood of randomly picking a white ball from the jar, we can look at the number of white balls compared to the total number of balls.

There are 3 white balls out of a total of 25 balls.

The probability of picking a white ball is:

\[ \frac{\text{Number of white balls}}{\text{Total number of balls}} = \frac{3}{25} \]

Since 3 is significantly less than 25, picking a white ball is unlikely. In general terms, when the probability is much less than 50%, it is considered "very unlikely."

So the correct response is:

very unlikely.