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Gavin has a bag that contains orange chews, cherry chews, and peach chews. He performs an experiment. Gavin randomly removes a chew from the bag, records the result, and returns the chew to the bag. Gavin performs the experiment 80 times. The results are shown below:

An orange chew was selected 19 times.
A cherry chew was selected 13 times.
A peach chew was selected 48 times.

Based on these results, express the probability that the next chew Gavin removes from the bag will be cherry chew as a decimal to the nearest hundredth.

User Stephenr
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Answer:

  • 0.16

Explanation:

Probability of removing cherry chew is:

  • P = 13/(19 + 13 + 48) = 13/80 = 0.16 (rounded)
User Yassine Elouafi
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