Question

The manager of a video game store found that 35 of the 140 people who preordered the latest baseball game canceled their orders the day before the game was released. He used that data to create a simulation to predict the probability that future customers will cancel their preorders.

Answer 1

Using the data presented in the problem, you are asked to predict the probability that future customers will cancel their preorders. To find the probability, you have to divide the number of people who cancelled their preorders by the total number of people who preordered.

35 people / 140 people = .25 or 25% probability that the future customers will cancel their preorders.