A box contains 8 red shirts, 13 blue shirts, 5 red pants, and 9 blue pants. Determine the probability of randomly selecting a blue piece of clothing or pants. Use P A B P A P B P A B ( or ) ( ) ( ) ( and ) = + − to explain your answer. PLEASE WRITE YOUR FINAL ANSWER AS A SIMPLIFIED FRACTION.
A box contains 8 red shirts, 13 blue shirts, 5 red pants, and 9 blue pants. Determine the probability of randomly selecting a blue piece of clothing or pants. Use P A B P A P B P A B ( or ) ( ) ( ) ( and ) = + − to explain your answer. PLEASE WRITE YOUR FINAL ANSWER AS A SIMPLIFIED FRACTION.
There are 13 + 9 blue garments. This includes the blue pants.
There are 5 other pants. This makes a total of 27 "target" garments.
There are 35 total garments altogether.
So the probability is 27/35
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