A box is filled with 9 red crayons, 2 blue crayons, and 5 yellow crayons. A crayon is chosen at random from the box. Find the probability that it is a red or a blue crayon.
Write your answer as a fraction in simplest form.

11/16

Step-by-step explanation:

9+2+5=16

9+2=11

11/16

You use ratios to determine, so to find blue crayons it will be 16/2 chance of finding a blue crayon since there are 16 crayons and 2 blue crayons, and simplified it will be 8/1, you can find out the red crayon also by doing the same thing, since you are trying to get a red or blue crayon it will be 5/11 chance of finding a blue or red crayon.

the simplified form is

step-by-step explanation:

we want to simplify the expression,

let us change the middle bar to a normal division sign to obtain,

we multiply the first fraction by the reciprocal of the second fraction to obtain,

we factor to obtain,

we cancel the common factors to get,

we simplify to get,

the correct answer is b