Answer: B. The ball is less likely to be a racquetball than a golf ball.
Step-by-step explanation:
Imagine a bin. You are storing different sports balls in the bin. You put 20 baseballs, 24 golf balls, 9 tennis balls, and 6 racquetballs in the bin. Can you name which ball is most likely to be chosen if you grabbed one out at random? The answer is the golf ball.
This is because there are more golf balls than any other type of ball. For example, there are 24 golf balls, yet there are only 20 baseballs. This means that you are more likely to pick a golf ball.
Remember that there are 6 racquetballs while there are 24 golf balls. There are 4 times more golf balls than racquetballs in the bin. This means that you are 4 times more likely to pick a golf ball than a racquetball when you take a ball out of the bin at random.
Since there are many more golf balls than racquetballs, you are more likely to grab a golf ball than a racquetball. This means that the ball is less likely to be a racquetball than a golf ball.
(If you are confused, imagine freshly baked cookies. You cooked 12 cookies.
8 cookies are chocolate chip
3 cookies are oatmeal raisin
1 cookie is peanut butter.
If you grab a cookie at random, with your eyes closed, you are most likely to pick the chocolate chip cookies. This is because there are more chocolate chip cookies than oatmeal raisin cookies or peanut butter cookies)
