Question

a teacher recorded the primary languages that the children in his class speak at home. chinese 8 spanish 4 english 2 french 1 vietnamese 1 what is the probability that a randomly selected child speaks primarily chinese at home? write your answer as a fraction or whole number. p(chinese) =

Explanation:

Step1: Calculate total number of children

$8 + 4+2 + 1+1=16$

Step2: Calculate probability of speaking Chinese

The number of children who speak Chinese is 8. Probability formula is $P(A)=\frac{\text{Number of favorable outcomes}}{\text{Total number of outcomes}}$. So $P(\text{Chinese})=\frac{8}{16}$

Answer:

$\frac{8}{16}$