Ivy has 4 tiles with pictures of plants and 5 tiles with pictures of animals. Ivy keeps all the tiles on a mat with the pictures hidden and mixes them up. She then turns one tile face up and finds the picture of a plant on it. She removes this tile from the mat and turns another over tile without looking. What is the probability that the second tile that Ivy turns over has a plant on it? (1 point)

Question

37.5%

44.4%

60.0%

80.0%

Answer 1

The probability of the second tile having a plant on it depends on the number of remaining tiles after the first plant tile was removed.

After the first plant tile is removed, there are 8 tiles left (3 plant tiles and 5 animal tiles).

Therefore, the probability of the second tile having a plant on it is 3 plant tiles out of 8 total tiles, which is 3/8, or 37.5%.

So the correct answer is: 37.5%