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Bella owns a small business selling ice-cream. She knows that in the last week 50 customers paid cash, 2 customers used a debit card, and 4 customers used a credit card. Based on these results, express the probability that the next customer will pay with cash or a credit card as a decimal to the nearest hundredth.

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Answer:

0.96

Explanation:

Bella owns a small business selling ice-cream. She knows that in the last week 50 customers paid cash, 2 customers used a debit card, and 4 customers used a credit card.

Based on these results, express the probability that the next customer will pay with cash or a credit card as a decimal to the nearest hundredth.

50 cash, 2 debit card, and 4 credit card.

50+2+4= 56

There were a total of 56 customers. 50+4=54 customers paid with cash or a credit card.

Probability the next customer will pay with cash or a credit card:

54

56

= 0.964285...

≈ 0.96

Round to the nearest hundredth

The probability as a decimal to the nearest hundredth is

0.96

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