Question

A restaurant owner collected data about the types of items customers ordered. The table shows the probability that a customer will order each type of item when they visit the restaurant. Move words to the table to describe the likelihood of a customer ordering each item.

Answer 1

When the exercise asks to describe the likelihood of the event using the probabilities means that taking into account that the probabilities are numbers between 0 and 1, see if the events are likely or not to happen.

For a soft drink, which has a 0.80 probability is a likely event that could happen because it is greater to the middle (0.5) but is not so close to 1.

For a daily special, which has a 0.25 probability is more and unlikely event that could still happen but its not so common to.

For dessert, which has a probability of 0.5 probability is neither a likely nor unlike event because the probability is really close to the middle.

For appetizer, which has a probability of 0.06 probability is more an unlikely/impossible event because the probability is so small and close to 0 that it is not common to happen at all.