SOLUTION: Fran the Fearless has a well-known act at a local zoo. As part of the act, Fran handles a scary animal that she picks at random out of the Box of Terror. The following animals are

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Question 1198642: Fran the Fearless has a well-known act at a local zoo. As part of the act, Fran handles a scary animal that she picks at random out of the Box of Terror. The following animals are in the box: 13 poisonous snakes, 9 nonpoisonous snakes, poisonous spiders, 11 and 4 nonpoisonous spiders. What is the probability that the animal Fran picks is poisonous or is a snake?
Do not round intermediate computations, and round your answer to the nearest hundredth.

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Calculate the number of favorable outcomes and relate it to the number of all possible outcomes.