... white and dark chocolates.
If the probability of picking a dark chocolate is
7
12
, what is the probability of picking a white chocolate
... white and dark chocolates.
If the probability of picking a dark chocolate is
7
12
, what is the probability of picking a white chocolate
Get a ruler in your hands. Measure things until you start to understand how a ruler works. Measure some stuff and figure out where the center is. Say you measure a book and it's 7/8" thick. You look at your ruler and see that every eighth is divided into two sixteenths, so obviously half of 7/8" is going to be 7/16". If you write that out you have 1/2 x 7/8 = 7/16. And you notice that 1/2 is divided into 2/4 and then into 4/8 and so on, so you can convert anything to anything by multiplying all the numbers on top and then all the numbers on bottom.
Other rulers are divided into 10 and 100 parts. But an inch is still an inch, so anything on one ruler can be translated to the other ruler. A half inch on one ruler is 5/10 or 50/100 on the other. An eighth inch is just 12.5 marks when you have 100 marks per inch. A metric ruler divides an inch into 25.4 parts, so a half inch would be 12.7 of those parts. Pretty simple, isn't it? Practice this a bit and people will think you went to wizard school.
Probability is fractions. If you pick any chocolate you are going to get a chocolate, so the probability is 12/12 which we call "12 out of 12". After you have used a ruler for a while it will be obvious to you that if 7 out of 12 are one color, then 5 out of 12 are the other color, because 7 + 5 = 12 and the probability of picking any color has to be 12 out of 12. But it won't be obvious until you practice with the ruler for a while.