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Restaurants often slip takeout menus under Troy's apartment door. So far, Troy has collected 2020 menus, including 66 for Mediterranean food. What is the experimental probability that the next menu slipped under Troy's door will be from a Mediterranean restaurant? Simplify your answer and write it as a fraction or whole number.\newlineP(Mediterranean)=__P(\text{Mediterranean}) = \_\_

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Q. Restaurants often slip takeout menus under Troy's apartment door. So far, Troy has collected 2020 menus, including 66 for Mediterranean food. What is the experimental probability that the next menu slipped under Troy's door will be from a Mediterranean restaurant? Simplify your answer and write it as a fraction or whole number.\newlineP(Mediterranean)=__P(\text{Mediterranean}) = \_\_
  1. Calculate Experimental Probability: The experimental probability is calculated by dividing the number of successful outcomes by the total number of trials. In this case, the successful outcomes are the number of Mediterranean menus, and the total number of trials is the total number of menus collected.
  2. Use Formula for Probability: To find the experimental probability that the next menu will be from a Mediterranean restaurant, we use the formula:\newlineP(Mediterranean)=Number of Mediterranean menusTotal number of menusP(\text{Mediterranean}) = \frac{\text{Number of Mediterranean menus}}{\text{Total number of menus}}
  3. Plug in Given Numbers: We plug in the numbers given in the problem:\newlineP(Mediterranean)=6 Mediterranean menus20 Total menusP(\text{Mediterranean}) = \frac{6 \text{ Mediterranean menus}}{20 \text{ Total menus}}
  4. Simplify the Fraction: Now we simplify the fraction:\newlineP(Mediterranean)=620P(\text{Mediterranean}) = \frac{6}{20}\newlineP(Mediterranean)=310P(\text{Mediterranean}) = \frac{3}{10} after dividing both numerator and denominator by 22.

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