Question

Nate is recording what kinds of shoes people are wearing at the mall. He has seen 12 people wearing sneakers and 64 people wearing other shoes. What is the experimental probability that the next person Nate sees will be wearing sneakers?
Enter your answer as a percentage rounded to the nearest tenth.

Answer 1

Answer:

Step-by-step explanation:

Remark

The total number of people he has surveyed is 12 +  64 = 76

So your probability is 12 / 76

When turned into a percent, the fraction becomes 100 times 12/76.

Givens

12 wore sneakers

64 wore other shoes

76 total in survey

Solution

P(sneakers) = # sneakers / Total

P(sneakers) = 12 / 76 = 0.15789

P(sneakers as a %) = 0.15789 * 100 = 15.789%

Answer

P(sneakers %) = 15.8 rounded to nearest 1/10