SOLUTION: A class is made up of boys and girls. Half of the boys wear glasses. A student is selected at random from the class. What is the probability that the student is a boy with glasse
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Question 600281: A class is made up of boys and girls. Half of the boys wear glasses. A student is selected at random from the class. What is the probability that the student is a boy with glasses?
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Let 
represent the number of boys and 
represent the number of girls. Presuming for the sake of simplicity that there are no members of the class that are in some sort of gender transitional state where they are neither boy nor girl, we can say that the total number students in the class is 
. The number of boys who wear glasses is 
.
The desired probability is then
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John
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