Question

of the last 60 people who went to the cash register at a department store, 13 had blond hair, 14 had black hair, 27 had brown hair, and 6 had red hair. Determine the empirical probability that the next person to come to the cash register has red hair.Pred) =(Simplify your answer. Type an integer or a fraction)

Answer 1

From the information given in the question;

number of people with blonde hair = 13

number of people with black hair = 14

number of people with brown hair = 27

number of people with red hair = 6

TOTAL number of people = 60

The formula to calculate probability is given by;

`\begin{gathered} \text{Probability = }\frac{n\text{umber of required outcome}}{n\text{umber of total outcomes}} \\ P(\text{red) = }\frac{n\text{umber of people with red hair}}{totaln\text{umber of people}} \\ \\ P(\text{red) = }(6)/(60)=(1)/(10) \end{gathered}`

Therefore, the empirical probability that the next person to come to the cash register has red hair is 1/10