{"id":21679,"date":"2026-05-25T22:57:21","date_gmt":"2026-05-25T16:57:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/mcq\/probability-of-choosing-a-yellow-counter-a-box-contains-8-orange-counters-9-green-counters-and-1-yellow-counters-if-one-cou\/"},"modified":"2026-05-25T22:57:21","modified_gmt":"2026-05-25T16:57:21","slug":"probability-of-choosing-a-yellow-counter-a-box-contains-8-orange-counters-9-green-counters-and-1-yellow-counters-if-one-cou","status":"publish","type":"mcq","link":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/mcq\/probability-of-choosing-a-yellow-counter-a-box-contains-8-orange-counters-9-green-counters-and-1-yellow-counters-if-one-cou\/","title":{"rendered":"Probability of choosing a yellow counter: A box contains 8 orange counters, 9 green counters, and 1 yellow counters. If one cou"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A box contains 8 orange counters, 9 green counters, and 1 yellow counters. If one counter is chosen without looking, what is the probability that it is yellow?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>8 orange counters<\/li><li>9 green counters<\/li><li>1 yellow counters<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Choose the best answer.<\/p>\n<ul class=\"quiz-options\"><li>4\/9<\/li><li>1\/17<\/li><li>17\/18<\/li><li>1\/2<\/li><li>1\/18<\/li><\/ul>","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","topic":[2907,2908],"subject":[2748],"education_level":[1894],"class_list":["post-21679","mcq","type-mcq","status-publish","hentry","topic-basic-probability","topic-favorable-outcomes","subject-probability-statistics","education_level-grade-8"],"mcq_note":"<p>For basic probability, compare the number of favorable outcomes with the total number of equally likely outcomes.<\/p><ul><li>Count the favorable outcomes first: there are 1 yellow counters.<\/li><li>Then count all possible outcomes: 8 + 9 + 1 = 18.<\/li><li>Probability means favorable outcomes divided by total outcomes, so the probability is 1\/18, which simplifies to 1\/18.<\/li><\/ul><p>The correct answer is 1\/18. This matches the calculation or definition, so students should focus on the reasoning rather than only memorizing the final value.<\/p>","mcq_options":[{"right":"no","answer":"4\/9"},{"right":"no","answer":"1\/17"},{"right":"no","answer":"17\/18"},{"right":"no","answer":"1\/2"},{"right":"yes","answer":"1\/18"}],"multi_answers":"no","subject_terms":[{"id":2748,"title":"Probability &amp; Statistics","slug":"probability-statistics"}],"topic_terms":[{"id":2907,"title":"Basic Probability","slug":"basic-probability"},{"id":2908,"title":"Favorable Outcomes","slug":"favorable-outcomes"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/mcq\/21679","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/mcq"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/mcq"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21679"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=21679"},{"taxonomy":"subject","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/subject?post=21679"},{"taxonomy":"education_level","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/education_level?post=21679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}