There are 400 people in a studio audience. The probability that a person chosen at random from this audience is male is 5/8. How many males are in the audience?

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Caitlin Morton

3 May, 17:50

There are 400 people in a studio audience. The probability that a person chosen at random from this audience is male is 5/8. How many males are in the audience?

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Brooks Forbes · Answer 1

250 males

Step-by-step explanation:

So 8/8 is the whole which equals 400 in this problem. 4/8 would be 1/2 so it would equal 200. For this certain equation 400 divided into 8th's would be 50. So since there is 5/8 males then you do 5*50 which would equal 250.