Bao has a bag that contains pineapple chews, apple chews, and peach chews. She performs an experiment. Bao randomly removes a chew from the bag, records the result, and returns the chew to the bag. Bao performs the experiment 66 times. The results are shown below:A pineapple chew was selected 20 times.A apple chew was selected 23 times.A peach chew was selected 23 times.Based on these results, express the probability that the next chew Bao removes from the bag will be a flavor other than apple as a fraction in simplest form.Answer:
Q. Bao has a bag that contains pineapple chews, apple chews, and peach chews. She performs an experiment. Bao randomly removes a chew from the bag, records the result, and returns the chew to the bag. Bao performs the experiment 66 times. The results are shown below:A pineapple chew was selected 20 times.A apple chew was selected 23 times.A peach chew was selected 23 times.Based on these results, express the probability that the next chew Bao removes from the bag will be a flavor other than apple as a fraction in simplest form.Answer:
Calculate Total Chews: Determine the total number of chews selected during the experiment. Bao performed the experiment 66 times, which means 66 chews were selected in total. Calculation: 20 (pineapple) + 23 (apple) + 23 (peach) = 66
Calculate Non-Apple Chews: Calculate the number of times a flavor other than apple was selected.Since apple chews were selected 23 times, we subtract this number from the total number of chews to find the number of times a non-apple flavor was selected.Calculation: 66 (total) - 23 (apple) = 43 (non-apple)
Find Probability as Fraction: Express the probability of selecting a non-apple flavor as a fraction. The probability is the number of successful outcomes (non-apple flavors) over the total number of possible outcomes (total chews). Calculation: Probability = 66 (total)43 (non-apple)
Simplify Fraction: Simplify the fraction to its simplest form.We need to find the greatest common divisor (GCD) of 43 and 66 and divide both the numerator and the denominator by that number.The GCD of 43 and 66 is 1, so the fraction is already in its simplest form.Calculation: 6643
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