Question

A grocery store sold 6 cans of soup, 3 of which contain tomato soup. based on experimental probability, how many of the next 8 cans sold should you expect to be tomato soup?

Answer 1

Answer:

4 tomato soup cans

Step-by-step explanation:

Step 1: State what is known

We know the store sold a total of 6 cans and 3 of which where tomato soup.  With that we can create a fraction $\frac{3}{6}$ with number of tomato soup divided by number of soup sold.  We can do the same thing with 8 cans but we don't know how many tomato sou cans are sold so we let 't' represent how many tomato soup are sold $\frac{t}{8}$

Step 2: Equate the 2 fractions and solve

$\frac{3}{6} =\frac{t}{8} \\6t=24\\\frac{6t}{6}=\frac{24}{6}\\t=4$

Step 3: Therefore statement

Therefore when 8 cans are sold we can expect 4 tomato soup cans will be sold