Compound Events Quick Check

Question

5 of 55 of 5 Items

Question
Use the table to answer the question.

Items Number of Orders
Breakfast Sandwich and Orange Juice 13
Muffins and Orange Juice 27
Breakfast Sandwich and Milk 23
Muffins and Milk 16
Mitch owns a coffee shop and keeps track of how many orders he fills and in what combination of items they are during the first hour his shop is open. Combinations include either a breakfast sandwich or muffin and either orange juice or milk.

Mitch needs to predict how many orders of a breakfast sandwich and a cup of orange juice he would expect to sell if he had 1,765 customers.

(1 point)
Responses

79 orders
79 orders

604 orders
604 orders

291 orders
291 orders

358 orders
358 orders

Answer 1

The correct response is:
291 orders

This can be calculated by finding the proportion of each combination and then multiplying it by the total number of customers.

Proportion of Breakfast Sandwich and Orange Juice: 13/79 = 0.1646
Total expected orders of Breakfast Sandwich and Orange Juice: 1,765 * 0.1646 ≈ 291