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57 students choose to attend one of three after school activities: football, tennis or running.
There are 26 boys.
24 students choose football, of which 15 are girls.
18 students choose tennis.
3 girls choose running.
A student is selected at random.
What is the probability this student chose running?
Give your answer in its simplest form.


Sagot :

The probability that the randomly selected student  will chose running  can be written as  12/57.

How can the the probability this student chose running be calculated?

The concept used is the probability which is the likelyhood of an event to take place.

Total number of students was given as  57

Total number of boys  that was given was  26

Total number of girls  can be written as 57-26=31`

Number of Girls that chose football  can be written as 15

Number of boys that chose football  can be wriitten as  9

Number of students that chose Tennis can be written as  18

Now, number of students that chose running will be;

Number of students that chose running = 57 - (24 + 18) = 15

Therefopre, probability that a randomly selected student chose running = 15/57

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