Lindsey has a stack of collectible cards based on her favorite comic-book series, The Defenders of Valley View. She randomly selects 15 cards and gets 1 Miss Smash, 3 Professor Bookerton, 7 Mr. Meld, and 4 Wizard Walter cards. Based on the data, what is the probability that the next card Lindsey selects will be a Mr. Meld card? Write your answer as a fraction or whole number.
Q. Lindsey has a stack of collectible cards based on her favorite comic-book series, The Defenders of Valley View. She randomly selects 15 cards and gets 1 Miss Smash, 3 Professor Bookerton, 7 Mr. Meld, and 4 Wizard Walter cards. Based on the data, what is the probability that the next card Lindsey selects will be a Mr. Meld card? Write your answer as a fraction or whole number.
Calculate Total Cards: First, let's figure out how many cards Lindsey has in total. She picked 15 cards, so the total number of cards she has is 15.
Find Mr. Meld Cards: Next, we need to find out how many of those cards are Mr. Meld cards. She got 7 Mr. Meld cards.
Calculate Probability: Now, we calculate the probability that the next card she picks will be a Mr. Meld card. The probability is the number of Mr. Meld cards divided by the total number of cards, which is 157.
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