Jane Peterson has taken Amtrak to travel from New York to Washington, DC, on ten occasions, of which eight times the train was l

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Jane Peterson has taken Amtrak to travel from New York to Washington, DC, on ten occasions, of which eight times the train was l

ate. Therefore, Jane tells her friends that the probability that this train will arrive on time is 0.20. Would you label this probability as empirical or classical?

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Arturiano [62] · Answer 1 · 2022-04-27T12:08:16+03:00

Answer:

Empirical Probability

Step-by-step explanation:

Jane has taken the train 10 times out of which the train came early 2 times. This gives us that:

Pr(train being early)=2/10=0.2

This is a result from an experiment carried out by Jane and is therefore an Experimental/Empirical Probability.

The empirical probability of an event is the ratio of the number of outcomes in which a specified event occurs to the total number of trials in an actual experiment.

Classical probability is a simple form of probability that has equal odds of something happening. Examples are Rolling a fair die, Tossing an Unbiased Coin etc.