Question

In the history of track and field no woman has broken the 10 second barrier in the 100 meter run. From the statement above find the empirical probability that a woman will break the 10 second barrier next year.

Answer 1

Since in the history of track and field no woman has broken the 10 second barrier in the 100 meter run, we have a total of 0 people that broke the achievment among all people that tried to break it.

Since the empirical probability is calculated with these real values, let's use the variable x to represent the number of people that tried to break that achievment, so we have:

`\begin{gathered} \text{Empirical probability}=\frac{\text{ number of people that broke the achievment}}{\text{ total number of people that tried}} \\ \text{Empirical probability}=(0)/(x) \\ \text{ Empirical probability}=0 \end{gathered}`

So the empirical probability of a woman breaking the 10 second barrier next year is 0%.