Question

The students at Kayla's school are forming teams of three students for a quiz bowl competition. Kayla is assuming that each member of a team is equally likely to be male or female. She uses a coin toss (heads = female, tails = male) to simulate this probability. Here is Kayla's data from 50 trials of 3 coin tosses: thh tth tth tht thh htt hth hht hth tth tth hht hth tht tht tth tth thh thh htt tht thh tth hht hth thh tht tth hht thh hhh tth tth hth htt tht thh hhh htt thh htt ttt tht ttt thh hht hth htt hht hth According to this data, what is the experimental probability that a team will consist entirely of girls? 0.33 0.04 0.2 0.02

Answer 1

There are 2 instances of hhh (all girls) in the 50 trials, so the experimental probability is 2/50 = 4/100 = 0.04.