Leslie used some of her allowance money to buy a stack of 300 baseball trading cards at a yard sale. She randomly looks at 24 cards and sees 8 outfielders, 7 pitchers, 4 catchers, and 5 infielders.Based on the data, what is the probability that the next card Leslie looks at will be a pitcher?Write your answer as a fraction or whole number.
Q. Leslie used some of her allowance money to buy a stack of 300 baseball trading cards at a yard sale. She randomly looks at 24 cards and sees 8 outfielders, 7 pitchers, 4 catchers, and 5 infielders.Based on the data, what is the probability that the next card Leslie looks at will be a pitcher?Write your answer as a fraction or whole number.
Identify total cards and pitchers: First, let's identify the total number of cards Leslie looked at and how many of those were pitchers. She looked at 24 cards in total and found 7 pitchers among them.
Calculate probability formula: To find the probability that the next card Leslie looks at will be a pitcher, we use the formula for probability: Probability = Total number of outcomesNumber of favorable outcomes. Here, the favorable outcomes are the pitchers, and the total outcomes are the cards she looked at.
Calculate probability: Plugging in the numbers, we get Probability = 247. This fraction represents the probability that the next card will be a pitcher.
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