In a popular online role playing game, players can create detailed designs for their character's "costumes," or appearance. Meena sets up a website where players can buy and sell these costumes online. Information about the number of people who visited the website and the number of costumes purchased in a single day is listed below. 53 visitors purchased no costume. 151 visitors purchased exactly one costume. 22 visitors purchased more than one costume. Based on these results, express the probability that the next person will purchase exactly one costume as a percent to the nearest whole number.

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To find the probability that the next person will purchase exactly one costume, we need to calculate the total number of visitors who purchased at least one costume first.

Total number of visitors who purchased at least one costume = 151 (purchased exactly one costume) + 22 (purchased more than one costume) = 173

Total number of visitors = 53 (purchased no costume) + 151 (purchased exactly one costume) + 22 (purchased more than one costume) = 226

Probability of the next person purchasing exactly one costume = (Number of visitors purchasing exactly one costume) / (Total number of visitors)
= 151 / 226
≈ 0.6681

Converting this probability to a percentage to the nearest whole number:
0.6681 * 100 ≈ 67%

Therefore, the probability that the next person will purchase exactly one costume is approximately 67%.