Question

Use the table to answer the question.

This table shows the number of seedlings for each plant type (A, B, C, D, and E).
Plant Types A B C D E
Number of Seedlings 100 140 80 60 40
A farmer conducted an inventory on his two square kilometers of rainforest; the results are in the table. He plans on randomly selecting a seedling to experiment on when he goes back to the forest. What is the probability that he will randomly pick a type B
plant? Write your answer in the simplest form of a fraction.

(1 point)

Answer 1

Total seedlings = 100 + 140 + 80 + 60 + 40 = 420.
Probability of B = 140/420 = 1/3.