A basket is filled with 8 white eggs and 9 brown eggs. Half (4) of those white eggs are cracked. A egg is selected randomly from the basket. What is the probability that a cracked egg is chosen?

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Answer 1

4 eggs out of 17 eggs are cracked.

a randomly selected egg has probabillity = 4/17 of being cracked or about 23.5% probability, almost 1 out 4 chance