Suppose you go to the store and there are six kinds of cereal. your mom tells you to pick one. when she comes back, you as her to guess which one you chose. assuming she had no idea beforehand what your choice would be, how likely is it that she will guess the correct one?

She has a 1/6 chance of guessing the correct cereal that you picked up. Since there were six cereal options.

the law of definite proportions states samples of a compound will always contain the same proportion of elements by mass. in other words, a given compound will always contain the same elements in the same proportions by mass.the law of multiple proportions states when two elements combine with each other to form more than one compound, then the weights of one element that combine with a fixed weight of the other are in a ratio of small whole numbers.