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A class is made up of 4 boys and 10 girls. Half of the girls wear glasses. A student is selected at random from the class. What is the probability that the student is a girl with glasses?
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A class is made up of 44 boys and 1010 girls. Half of the girls wear glasses. A student is selected at random from the class. What is the probability that the student is a girl with glasses?\newlineWrite your answer as a fraction in simplest form.

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Q. A class is made up of 44 boys and 1010 girls. Half of the girls wear glasses. A student is selected at random from the class. What is the probability that the student is a girl with glasses?\newlineWrite your answer as a fraction in simplest form.
  1. Calculate total number of students: Calculate the total number of students in the class. There are 44 boys and 1010 girls, so the total number of students is 4+10=144 + 10 = 14.
  2. Determine girls with glasses: Determine the number of girls who wear glasses. Half of the 1010 girls wear glasses, so 10/2=510 / 2 = 5 girls wear glasses.
  3. Calculate probability for girl with glasses: Calculate the probability that a randomly selected student is a girl with glasses. The probability is the number of girls with glasses divided by the total number of students, so P(girl with glasses)=514P(\text{girl with glasses}) = \frac{5}{14}.

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