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Question

Please help me? A math class has 5

 girls and 5

 boys in the seventh grade and 7

 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? answer as a fraction in simplest form.

Answer 1

Odds of picking a boy from the 7th graders is 5/10 0r 1/2

Odds of picking a boy from the eighth graders is 5/12

Odd of both is 1/2 x512= 5/24