Left or Right?

Of 24 children on a tennis coaching course , 14 are boys and 8 are left handed, including 5 of the boys . No child is ambidextrous . Find the probability that a child selected at random is a right handed boy?


The answer is 0.375.

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1 solution

Utkarsh Goel
Jul 15, 2014

No. Of boys = 24 No. Of left handed boys = 5 Hence, no. Of rt handed boys = 9 Prob = 9/24 = 0.375

I was entering 37.5 in terms of percentage

Avinash Parate - 6 years, 11 months ago

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