Let's say you have a bag with 12 cherries, 4 sweet and 8 sour. If you pick a cherry at random, what is the probability that it will be sweet? Write your answer as a reduced fraction.

Which of these would have been most likely to have been a carpetbagger during the reconstruction era? a) a new york businessman who relocated to mississippi b) a former slave who was able to buy land in birmingham c) a carolina-born politician who supported the democratic d) a former confederate officer who owned a farm in memphis eliminate