Question

One ticket is drawn at random from a bag containing tickets numbered 1 to 40. The probability that the selected ticket has a number which is a multiple of 5 is ______.

Options

• `1/5`

• `3/5`

• `4/5`

• `1/3`

Answer 1

One ticket is drawn at random from a bag containing tickets numbered 1 to 40. The probability that the selected ticket has a number which is a multiple of 5 is `underlinebb(1/5)`.

Explanation:

Number of total outcomes = 40

Multiplies of 5 between 1 to 40 = 5, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30, 35, 40

∴ Total number of possible outcomes = 8

∴ Required probability = `8/40`

= `1/5`