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IDK HOW TO DO THIS QUESTION!!!

What is the probability that a randomly selected book is a nonfiction paperback?
Write the probability as a percent rounded to the nearest tenth of a percent.

IDK HOW TO DO THIS QUESTION!!! What is the probability that a randomly selected book-example-1

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Answer:

0.3%

Explanation:

that is the simple way of it

User Wp Student
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So you have 69 total books to pick from.
Of those, 23 are non-fiction paperbacks.

So 23 out of 69 would he your odds.

Or.. you could reduce as expected.

1/3, which in decimal is....

.333 repeating
User Rohan Khajuria
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