Last week Cam's Ice Cream Shop sold n chocolate chip ice cream cones out of a total of N ice cream cones. Based on this data, what is a reasonable estimate of the probability that the next ice cream cone sold is a chocolate chip ice cream cone?
Q. Last week Cam's Ice Cream Shop sold n chocolate chip ice cream cones out of a total of N ice cream cones. Based on this data, what is a reasonable estimate of the probability that the next ice cream cone sold is a chocolate chip ice cream cone?
Identify Data: Step 1: Identify the total number of ice cream cones sold and the number of chocolate chip cones sold. Let's say Cam's Ice Cream Shop sold 120 chocolate chip cones out of a total of 500 cones last week.
Calculate Probability: Step 2: Calculate the probability. Probability is calculated by dividing the number of favorable outcomes by the total number of outcomes.Calculation: Probability = Total number of cones soldNumber of chocolate chip cones sold=500120
Simplify Fraction: Step 3: Simplify the fraction to get the probability.Calculation: 120/500=0.24
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