SOLUTION: There are 7 girls and six boys in a class. Three of the girls and two of the boys have brown eyes. If a student is chosen at random, what's the probability of choosing a brown-eyed

Question 875354: There are 7 girls and six boys in a class. Three of the girls and two of the boys have brown eyes. If a student is chosen at random, what's the probability of choosing a brown-eyed student or a girl?
Answer by jim_thompson5910(35256) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
There are 3+2 = 5 people with brown eyes.

There are 7 girls.

So there are 5+7 = 12 people who are either a girl or have brown eyes...BUT...we have to subtract out 3 because there are 3 girls who have brown eyes (they get counted twice)

So there are really 5+7-3 = 12-3 = 9 people who are either a girl or have brown eyes

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There are 6+7 = 13 people total.

So the final answer is 9/13
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