Question

caleb has a bag that contains orange chews, cherry chews, and peach chews. he performs an experiment. caleb randomly removes a chew from the bag, records the result, and returns the chew to the bag. caleb performs the experiment 20 times. the results are shown below: an orange chew was selected 15 times. a cherry chew was selected 3 times. a peach chew was selected 2 times. based on these results, express the probability that the next chew caleb removes from the bag will be cherry chew as a decimal to the nearest hundredth.

Explanation:

Step1: Determine total trials

Total number of experiments is 20 (since he performed it 20 times).

Step2: Determine cherry trials

Cherry chew was selected 3 times.

Step3: Calculate probability

Probability of selecting cherry chew is the number of cherry trials divided by total trials, so $P(cherry)=\frac{3}{20}$.

Step4: Convert to decimal

$\frac{3}{20} = 0.15$.

Answer:

0.15