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Between 6pm and 7pm, 5 mystery novels, 3 non-fiction books, 7 picture books, and 2 science fiction novels were returned to the library. What is the experimental probability that the next book returned
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Between 6pm and 7pm, 5 mystery novels, 3 non-fiction books, 7 picture books, and 2 science fiction novels were returned to the library. What is the experimental probability that the next book returned to the library is a picture book?

User Shay Ben Moshe
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If you add 5+3+7+2 you'd get 17 an 7 out of the 17 books were picture books so the 7/17 is the probability that the next returned book is a picture book. Hope this helps!
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