A box contains 5 red, 6 green and 7 yellow pencils of the same size. What is the probability of picking a green pencil at random?

Assessment: WAEC SSCE - General Mathematics - 2019 (Objective) Subject: General Mathematics

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A box contains 5 red, 6 green and 7 yellow pencils of the same size. What is the probability of picking a green pencil at random?

Answer Details
There are 5 + 6 + 7 = 18 pencils in the box. Since there are 6 green pencils, the probability of picking a green pencil at random is 6/18, which simplifies to 1/3. Therefore, the answer is \(\frac{1}{3}\).

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