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sporeowner made a list of the number ofred marbles. One marble is selected at random.greeting cards sold last month. The store soldDetermine whether each statement correctly describes the167 thank-you cards, 285 birthday cards andlikelihood of an event based on the given bag of marbles.56 blank cards. Based on this data, what isState whether each statement is True or False.the probability that the next customer willbuy a blank card expressed as a percent?

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Given:

A storeowner made a list of number of greeting cards sold last month.

The store sold 167 thank-you cards, 285 birthday cards and 56 blank cards.

Required:

What is the probability that the next customer will buy a blank card expressed as a percent?

Step-by-step explanation:

We will find total number of cards sold as:

167 + 285 + 56 = 508

Now we will find percentage of each type of card sold as:


\begin{gathered} Percenatge\text{ of thank you cards sold =}(167)/(508) \\ =0.33^\% \end{gathered}
\begin{gathered} Percentage\text{ of birthday card sold =}(285)/(508) \\ =0.56 \end{gathered}

Percentage of blank cards sold


\begin{gathered} =(56)/(508) \\ =0.11 \end{gathered}

Answer:

Hence, in percent probability of sold blank card is 11%.

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