Question

A basket is filled with 8 white eggs and 10 brown eggs. Half of the white eggs are cracked.An egg is randomly selected from the basket. What is the probability that it is a cracked, white eWrite your answer as a fraction in simplest form

Answer 1

Given:-

A basket is filled with 8 white eggs and 10 brown eggs. Half of the white eggs are cracked. An egg is randomly selected from the basket.

To find the probability that it is a cracked.

Now we find the total number of eggs. so we get,

$8+10=18$

So the total number of eggs is 18.

So now the probability of the eggs is cracked is,

$\frac{no\text{ of eggs craked }}{total\text{ number of eggs}}$

Cracked eggs is half the white egg.

So we get,

$\frac{4}{18}=\frac{2}{9}$

So the probability of cracked egg is,

$\frac{2}{9}$