Question

Lydia has a bag that contains orange chews, cherry chews, and peach chews. She performs an experiment. Lydia randomly removes a chew from the bag, records the result, and returns the chew to the bag. Lydia performs the experiment 62 times. The results are shown below:
A orange chew was selected 25 times.
A cherry chew was selected 24 times.
A peach chew was selected 13 times.

Based on these results, express the probability that the next chew Lydia removes from the bag will be orange or peach as a percent to the nearest whole number.

Answer 1

Probability = (orange + peach)/total = (25 + 13)/62 = 38/62 = 19/31 ≈ 0.6129 = 61% (to the nearest whole percent).