Bria asked her classmates whether they prefer math or science. Nine of her classmates said math and eight of her classmates said science. Which inequality correctly compares the fraction who prefer science to the fraction who prefer math?Eight-seventeenths is greater than two-seventeenths Eight-ninths is greater than one-ninth Eight-seventeenths is less than nine-seventeenths Eight-ninths is less than nine-ninths

the answer   is 200

step-by-step explanation:

this is a problem about poisson probabilities.   i don't know if you've

already studied poisson distributions, or if you have a place to look

to read more about the subject.  

here's how you can see a poisson distribution coming.   when there are

a lot of events that may happen at any time (or any place), and when

you're counting how many of them happen at a particular time (or a

particular place), and each event is independent of the others, then

the result is a poisson distribution.   this is roughly true for the

chocolate chips; one chip being in a cookie has only a small effect on

the probability that another chip will be in the cookie.

once you know you have a poisson distribution, you know a lot.   there

is only one parameter to a poisson distribution, so if you know the

mean, you know everything.   the form of the distribution is

  probability of n chips = {[e^(-x)]*(x^n)} / (n! )

the 2 figures are congruent bc if you reflect abcd over the y axis then over the d axis the figures overlap