The two-way table shows the number of books of each type in Eliza’s home. A 5-column table has 3 rows. The first column has entries hardcover, paperback, total. The second column is labeled Fiction with entries 28, 4, 32. The third column is labeled biographies with entries 2, 1, 3. The fourth column is labeled Reference with entries 10, 15, 25. The fifth column is labeled Total with entries 40, 20, 60.

What is the probability that a randomly selected reference book is hardcover?

Ok here we go ..there are plenty of ways to solve such math problems but we will go for the smartest and easiest ..5x+2y=7  -2x+6y=9we rearrange them into the following ..by multiplying the 1st equation by 2 it becomes 10x + 4y = 14we rearrange it and so it becomes 10x = 14 - 4yas for the second equation we multiply it by 5 and rearrange it so it becomes as to the following ..-10x + 30y = 45rearranging so 10x = 30y -45now 10x equals both 14 - 4y and 30y -45so   14 - 4y = 30y -4531 = 26yy= 31/26 = 1.19 or around 1.2so by now we can calculate x easily as  -2x+6y=9so 2x = 6y -9 = 6 * 31/26 - 9 = -1.84  then x = - 0.92 or around -0.9best luck!

The correct answer is b