Question

Hannah has a bag that contains pineapple chews, apple chews, and peach chews. She performs an experiment. Hannah randomly removes a chew from the bag, records the result, and returns the chew to the bag. Hannah performs the experiment 20 times. The results are shown below:
A pineapple chew was selected 5 times.
A apple chew was selected 7 times.
A peach chew was selected 8 times.

Based on these results, express the probability that the next chew Hannah removes from the bag will be a flavor other than peach as a percent to the nearest whole number.

Answer 1

Peach was selected 8 times out of 20, so the estimated probability of peach is 8/20 = 0.4.
Thus the probability of a flavor other than peach is 1 − 0.4 = 0.6 = 60%.