Question

the bagel shop recorded how many bagels it recently sold in each flavor. plain bagels: 26, sesame seed bagels: 6, onion bagels: 10. what is the experimental probability that the next bagel sold will be a sesame seed bagel? write your answer as a fraction or whole number. p(sesame seed bagel) =

Explanation:

Step1: Calculate total number of bagels sold

$26 + 6+10=42$

Step2: Calculate probability of sesame - seed bagel

The number of sesame - seed bagels sold is 6. The probability formula for experimental probability is $P(A)=\frac{\text{Number of times event }A\text{ occurs}}{\text{Total number of trials}}$. Here, event $A$ is selling a sesame - seed bagel. So $P(\text{sesame - seed bagel})=\frac{6}{42}=\frac{1}{7}$

Answer:

$\frac{1}{7}$