Question

liam has a bag that contains pineapple chews, cherry chews, and lime chews. he performs an experiment. liam randomly removes a chew from the bag, records the result, and returns the chew to the bag. liam performs the experiment 62 times. the results are shown below: a pineapple chew was selected 58 times. a cherry chew was selected 2 times. a lime chew was selected 2 times. based on these results, express the probability that the next chew liam removes from the bag will be cherry chew as a decimal to the nearest hundredth.

Explanation:

Step1: Recall probability formula

Probability = $\frac{\text{Number of favorable outcomes}}{\text{Total number of outcomes}}$

Step2: Identify values

Number of times cherry chew was selected (favorable outcomes) = 2. Total number of experiments = 62.

Step3: Calculate probability

$P(\text{cherry})=\frac{2}{62}=\frac{1}{31}\approx 0.03$

Answer:

0.03