A science class has 3 girls and 1 boy in the seventh grade and 5 girls and 5 boys in the eighth grade. the teacher randomly selects a seventh grader and an eighth grader from the class for a competition. what is the probability that the students she selects are both boys
In the science class, there are 3 girls and 1 boy (grade 7) and 5 girls and 5 boys (grade 8) There is a total of 14 pupils being 8 girls and 6 boys The probability of choosing a boy will be [tex] \frac{6}{14}[/tex] Which can be simplified into [tex] \frac{3}{7} [/tex] by dividing 2 from the numerator as well as the denominator.
