Geometry: Common Core (15th Edition)

Published by Prentice Hall
ISBN 10: 0133281159
ISBN 13: 978-0-13328-115-6

Chapter 10 - Area - Chapter Review - Page 680: 48

Answer

$50 \%$

Work Step by Step

We can see that the shaded region is equal to half of the area of the triangle. So, the probability should be equal to the area of the shaded region and the area of the greater triangle. This means that $P=\dfrac{1}{2}=0.5$ or, $P=50 \%$
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