Question

A store is giving out cards labelled 1 through 10 when customers enter the store. If the card is an even number, you get a 10% discount on your purchase that day. If the card is an odd number greater than 6, you get a 40% discount. Otherwise, you get a 20% discount. The table shows the results of 400 customers. What is the relative frequency for each discount? Use pencil and paper. If the manager of the store wants to approximately half of the customers to receive the 20% discount, does this seem like an appropriate method? Explain.

Answer 1

Relative frequency for each discount :

10% - 0.4925, 20% - 0.3325, 40% - 0.175

Since only 33.25% of customers got 20% discount, it is not an appropriate method.

Explanation:

relative frequency = number of frequency/total number of frequency

you can find out relative frequency for each number and add them up to get relative frequencies of discounts.