Ramesh buys fish from a shop for his aquarium. The shopkeeper takes out one fish at random from a tank containing 5 male fish and 9 female fish. Then, the probability that the fish taken out is a male fish is

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Given, Ramesh buys fish from a shop for his aquarium. The shopkeeper takes out one fish at random from a tank containing 5 male fish and 9 female fish.
The probability of an event to be occurred is the division of the number of favourable outcomes by the total number of outcomes that is,

Probability of an event = Number of favourable cases Total number of cases

The total number of fishes out of which one fish can be chosen

5 + 9 = 14

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So, the total number of possible outcomes is 14.
The number of male fishes is 5.
So, the number of favourable outcomes is 5.
Find the required probability by using the formula of probability that is,