SOLUTION: A bag contains five yellow tickets numbered one to five. The bag also contains five green tickets numbered one to five. You randomly pick a ticket. It is green or has a number grea

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Question 1089312: A bag contains five yellow tickets numbered one to five. The bag also contains five green tickets numbered one to five. You randomly pick a ticket. It is green or has a number greater than four. Find the probability of this occuring.
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There are 10 possible outcomes, six of which can be considered a success. Namely, any of the five green tickets or the yellow ticket numbered 5. The probability of an event is the number of successes divided by the number of possible outcomes.


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