Question

In a popular online role playing game, players can create detailed designs for their character's "costumes," or appearance. Ruby sets up a website where players can buy and sell these costumes online. Information about the number of people who visited the website and the number of costumes purchased in a single day is listed below.127 visitors purchased no costume. 195 visitors purchased exactly one costume. 16 visitors purchased more than one costume. Based on these results, express the probability that the next person will purchase more than one costume as a decimal to the nearest hundredth.

Answer 1

To find the probability of a person buying more than one costume, divide the number of people that has bought more than one costume over the total amount of people that have visited the website.

The total amount of people that have visited the website is given by the following sum:

`127+195+16=338`

Since 16 visitors have purchased more than one costume, divide 16 over 338:

`(16)/(338)=0.04733727811\ldots`

Since 16/338 is lower than 0.05 but greater than 0.04 and it's closer to 0.05, then, the probability of the next person purchasing more than one costume, rounded to the nearest hundredth, is 0.05.