A fruit basket contains 8 oranges ,5 apples , 2 pears . if you randomly pull one piece of fruit from the basket what would the following probabilities be ? ( write each answers as a fraction , decimal ,and percent . apple , orange or pear not oranges

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A fruit basket contains 8 oranges ,5 apples  , 2 pears . if you  randomly  pull one piece  of fruit  from  the basket what would  the following  probabilities be ? ( write each answers as a fraction , decimal ,and percent . apple , orange or pear  not oranges

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mathhelper · Answer

prob(apple) = 5/15 = 1/3 = .3333..... = 33.33..% there were 5 apples out of the total of 15 fruits, thus 5/15 do the others in the same way.