One ball is drawn at random from a bag containing 2 red balls and 8 white balls.

(a) What is the probability that the ball is red?

Correct: Your answer is correct.


(b) What is the probability that the ball is green?

Correct: Your answer is correct.


(c) What is the probability that the ball is red or white?

1 answer

Are we answering only c) ?

c) since there are only reds and whites, and you want prob(red OR white)

the prob(red OR white) = 1

that is, 2/10 + 8/10
= 10/10
= 1