Question

Tyler has a bag that contains orange chews, cherry chews, and peach chews. He performs an experiment. Tyler randomly removes a chew from the bag, records the result, and returns the chew to the bag. Tyler performs the experiment 38 times. The results are shown below:

A orange chew was selected 28 times.
A cherry chew was selected 7 times.
A peach chew was selected 3 times.

Based on these results, express the probability that the next chew Tyler removes from the bag will be peach chew as a percent to the nearest whole number.

Answer 1

8%

Explanation:

Mathematically, the probability of an event can be obtained by dividing the expected number in which event will turn up divided by the total number we have in the sample space

From the question, the total number of times in which the experiment is performed is 38 times

The number of times we have the peach chew selected is 3 times

So the probability that the next removal will be a peach chew will be;

3/38 = 0.079

This as a percent is 7.9%

To the nearest whole number, this figure is 8%