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Leslie used some of her allowance money to buy a stack of 300300 baseball trading cards at a yard sale. She randomly looks at 2424 cards and sees 88 outfielders, 77 pitchers, 44 catchers, and 55 infielders.\newlineBased on the data, what is the probability that the next card Leslie looks at will be a pitcher?\newlineWrite your answer as a fraction or whole number.

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Q. Leslie used some of her allowance money to buy a stack of 300300 baseball trading cards at a yard sale. She randomly looks at 2424 cards and sees 88 outfielders, 77 pitchers, 44 catchers, and 55 infielders.\newlineBased on the data, what is the probability that the next card Leslie looks at will be a pitcher?\newlineWrite your answer as a fraction or whole number.
  1. 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 2424 cards in total and found 77 pitchers among them.
  2. 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 = Number of favorable outcomesTotal number of outcomes\frac{\text{Number of favorable outcomes}}{\text{Total number of outcomes}}. Here, the favorable outcomes are the pitchers, and the total outcomes are the cards she looked at.
  3. Calculate probability: Plugging in the numbers, we get Probability = 724\frac{7}{24}. This fraction represents the probability that the next card will be a pitcher.

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