A cooler at a picnic contains 100 cans of soda covered by ice. there are 21 21 cans of cola, 10 10 cans of orange soda, 13 13 cans of ginger ale, and 56 56 cans of root beer. the cans are all the same size and shape. if one can is selected at random from the cooler, determine the probability that the soda selected is ginger ale ginger ale , orange soda orange soda, or cola. cola.

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Kallie Zhang

Mathematics

25 September, 01:16

A cooler at a picnic contains 100 cans of soda covered by ice. there are 21 21 cans of cola, 10 10 cans of orange soda, 13 13 cans of ginger ale, and 56 56 cans of root beer. the cans are all the same size and shape. if one can is selected at random from the cooler, determine the probability that the soda selected is ginger ale ginger ale , orange soda orange soda, or cola. cola.

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Kylee Hammond · Answer 1

Answer: 11/25

Explanation:

There are 100 cans of soda.

There are 21 cans of cola

There are 10 cans of orange

There are 13 cans of ginger ale.

There are 56 cans of root beer.

P (Ginger Ale, Orange or Cola) = (21 + 10 + 13) / 100 = 44/100 = 11/25