You and your 8 friends decide to draw straws for a prize. There are 8 long straws and 1 short straw. Describe how the theoretical probability of drawing the short straw changes as each friend picks a straw.

if you have 9 straws in total and only one of the straws are short. you are more likely to pick one of the eight long straws. which makes grabbing the one small straw a 1/9 chance and everytime one of the friends grab a straw it makes the possibility of grabbing the one small straw less, for example after one friend picks the possibility is gonna be 1/8 now and then another friend picks it would be 1/7. I hope this helps you because this is how I would solve it and I hope that's the way you need too as well

i don't even know man. edge inuity be messing with us. i had to ask a question too.

step-by-step explanation:

you divide the denominator by the numerator on both sides and if the quotients are equal then the fractions are equivalent