SOLUTION: In a car park there are 48 blue cars, 32 grey cars and 20 white cars. If a car is stolen at random, what is probability that it is a) A blue car? b) Not a white car

Question 1065567: In a car park there are 48 blue cars, 32 grey cars and 20 white cars. If a car is stolen at random, what is probability that it is
a) A blue car?
b) Not a white car

Found 2 solutions by Boreal, stanbon:
Answer by Boreal(15235) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
100 cars
probability blue is 0.48
probability it is not white is 0.80, since there is 0.20 probability white.
Answer by stanbon(75887) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
In a car park there are 48 blue cars, 32 grey cars and 20 white cars. If a car is stolen at random, what is probability that it is
a) P(A blue car) = 48/(48+32+20) = 48/100 = 0.48
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b) P(Not a white car) = 1 - P(white car) = 1 - (20/100) = 0.8
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Cheers,
Stan H.
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