A bag of trail mix contains 36 peanuts, 21 almonds, 13 raisins, and 19 chocolate candies. Li hates raisins. If Li reaches into the bag and randomly selects one item, what is the probability that it will not be a raisin?

Respuesta :

From the question, we can summarize that there are 76 non-raisins and 13 raisins. All in all, there are a total of 89 sweets in the bag.

There are 76 non-raisins because 36 peanuts + 21 almonds + 19 chocolate candies = 76.

To solve for the probability of picking a non-raisin sweet, we have the formula below:

[tex]P=\frac{\text{total no. of non-raisin}}{\text{total no. of sweets in the bag}}[/tex]

Let's plug in the values that we have identified in the formula above.

[tex]P=\frac{76}{89}=0.8539[/tex]

Therefore, the probability of not picking a raisin is 76/89 or 85.39%.