Of the last 60 people who went to the cash register at a department store, 16 ha

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Of the last 60 people who went to the cash register at a department store, 16 had blond hair, 19 had black hair, 20 had brown hair, and 5 had red hair. Determine the empirical probability that the next person to come to the cash register has red hair.

P(red)= _____ (Simplify your answer. Enter an interger or a fraction)


2. A monk crossbred plants, which can have purple or white flowers, and obtained 590 plants with white flowers and 218 plants with purple flowers. Find the empirical probability that a plant had each type of flower.


The probability a plant had white flowers is __________. (Round to the nearest hundreth as needed).

Explanation / Answer

Solution 1)

Given that ,

Blond hair = 16

Black hair = 19

Brown hair = 20

Red hair = 5

Total are 60 peoples .

The empirical probability that the next person to come to the cash register has red hair is

P (red) = 5 / 60 = 1 / 12 = 0.083

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