(1) During a sale, a baseball team allows people to buy
either a classic ticket (C), or an autograph event
ticket (A). Suppose two customers buy one ticket
each. What is the sample space for this action?
(2) Carol opened 20 different bags of the same kind of
candy and recorded the colors and their
frequencies, as shown below. What is the relative
frequency, expressed as a percent, of selecting a
red candy?
color====== red blue green purple
Frequency= 10 16 28 18
(3) Mrs. Rutteledge has one of her students do a probability
demonstration. The student uses tape to mark a line on the
floor and spins a top in the middle of the line. He then records
whether the top stops to the left or to the right of the line. This
is repeated 40 times, as seen below. What is the relative
frequency that the top stops to the left of the line, expressed as
a percent?
location where top stopped== left of line right of the line
Frequency================= 28 12
(4) An employee at a pet shop randomly selects a fish from a
tank where there are 5 guppies, 4 platyfishes, and 3
rasboras. What is the probability that the selected fish is a
platyfish? Express your answers as a simplified fraction.
(5) On a grocery store shelf, there are 16 loaves
of white bread and 15 loaves of white bread.
A shopper randomly selects a loaf of bread.
What is the probability it is wheat? Express
your answer to the nearest percent.