Question

elijah has a bag that contains pineapple chews, strawberry chews, and peach chews. he performs an experiment. elijah randomly removes a chew from the bag, records the result, and returns the chew to the bag. elijah performs the experiment 59 times. the results are shown below:
a pineapple chew was selected 15 times.
a strawberry chew was selected 26 times.
a peach chew was selected 18 times.
based on these results, express the probability that the next chew elijah removes from the bag will be pineapple chew as a percent to the nearest whole number.
answer attempt 1 out of 2

Explanation:

Step1: Recall Probability Formula

The experimental probability of an event is the number of times the event occurs divided by the total number of trials. So, for the pineapple chew, the formula is $P(\text{pineapple}) = \frac{\text{Number of times pineapple was selected}}{\text{Total number of trials}}$.

Step2: Identify Values

Number of times pineapple was selected is 15, and total number of trials is 59. So we have $P(\text{pineapple}) = \frac{15}{59}$.

Step3: Convert to Percentage

To convert this fraction to a percentage, we calculate $\frac{15}{59} \times 100 \approx 25.42\%$. Rounding to the nearest whole number gives 25%.

Answer:

25%