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Question

They caught a total number of 65 fish. The table shows the type and number of fish caught. Determine the empirical probability that the next fish caught is a kingfish.

 

fish           number caught

grouper                 12

shark                    18

flounder                 3

kingfish                 32

 

P(kingfish)= ?

Answer 1

Hi Jb,

 

Empirical probability simply means that we're estimating the probability from data. In any case, the probability that some event, A, occurs is equal to the number of times that A occurred divided by the total number of events.

 

In your case, this would be 32/(12 + 18 + 3 + 32) = 32/65 = .492

 

Hope that helps.