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A basket contains 14 white eggs, 15 brown eggs, and 11 lemons. Taylor is in a hurry to make breakfast and picks something from the basket at random. The exact probability that Taylor picks an egg from the basket is

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The answer is 0.475 = 47.5%.

There are in total 40 things in the basket:
14 white eggs + 15 brown eggs + 11 lemons = 40.

Among those 40 things 29 are eggs:
14 white eggs + 15 brown eggs = 29

The exact probability that Taylor picks an egg from the basket is 0.475 or 47.5%:
19 ÷ 40 = 0.475

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