Diego recorded the color of the cars that passed his house one afternoon. The results are shown in the table. What is the experimental probability that the next car will be blue? Express your answer as a fraction in its simplest form. NOC = number of cars.

Question

Color: Blue, Black, Red, Gray, Silver, White
NOC : 10, 17, 7, 12, 12, 14

Answer 1

To find the experimental probability that the next car will be blue, we divide the number of blue cars by the total number of cars recorded.

Number of blue cars = 10
Total number of cars = 10 + 17 + 7 + 12 + 12 + 14 = 72

Experimental probability = 10/72 = 5/36

Therefore, the experimental probability that the next car will be blue is 5/36.