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at a city hospital 40 boys and 50 girls were born yesterday. what is the experimental probability that the next baby born will be a girl

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Answer:

around 44%

Explanation:

You add 40+50 in order to find the total number of babies born. Only 40 of those 90 were girls. Divide 40 by 90 in order to get the decimal .444444. This is turned into a percentage by moving the decimal place right 2 places.

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