Question

A special commercial about Doritos is to be randomly played during the 210 minutes of the SuperBowl. If you had to leave to run an errand and miss 30 minutes of the game, what is theprobability that you would still be able to see the beginning of the commercial?A. 14.3%B. 12.5%C. 85.7%D. 75%

Answer 1

From the information provided;

A commercial is to be played during the 210 minutes of the super bowl. If you had to miss 30 minutes of the game, the probability of seeing beginning of the commercial would be;

`\begin{gathered} \lbrack P\rbrack=\frac{Total\text{ number of successful events}}{Total\text{ number of }possibl\text{e events}} \\ \lbrack P\rbrack=(30)/(210) \\ \lbrack P\rbrack=0.142857\ldots \end{gathered}`

The probability of seeing the beginning of the commercial would be 0.1428 (approximately), and when expressed as a percentage, this would be 14.28%.

ANSWER:

The correct answer therefore is 14.3%

Option A is the correct answer