Of the 42 plays attributed to a playwright, 11 are comedies, 14 are tragedies, and 17 are histories. if one play is selected at random, find the odds in favor of selecting a tragedy the odds in favor of selecting a tragedy are simplity your answer.)

Step-by-step explanation:

The odds in favor is the division of the number of ways the event may occur and the number of ways it cannot occur, so the formula is:

There are 14 tragedies. And since there are 42 plays in total, then the non-tragedies is the result of subtracting the 14 tragedies from 42.

Therefore the odds in favor formula becomes:

Once we simplify we finally get:

The odds in favor of selecting a tragedy are:

5x+40

5(x + 8)

7x - 49

7(x - 7)

18x + 9

9(2x + 1)

15x - 10

5(3x - 2)

step-by-step explanation:

for number one all you have to do is factor 5 out of 5x + 40

for number 2 factor 7 out of 7x - 49

for number three factor 9 out of 18x + 9

for number four factor 5 out of 15x - 10