The personnel director at a large company studied the eating habits of the company's employees. The director noted whether emplo
yees brought their own lunches to work, ate at the company cafeteria, or went out to lunch. The goal of the study was to improve the food service at the company cafeteria. This type of data collection would best be considered as:
Since there are 2 possibilities for each bat (hit or out), the amount of total possibilities is 2 * 2 * 2 = 8. There is only one possibility out of those eight that gives us three hits, therefore the probability is 1 / 8 or 0.125.