Question

probability help

Answer 1

A jar contains coins that are all mixed up. You pick out 20 coins. From this selection, 15 turn out to be gold, 3 are silver, and the remaining coins are bronze. If the jar contains 20 gold coins, 30 silver coins, and 50 bronze coins, what is the experimental probability of picking a bronze coin?

Answer 2

A. 50% B. 10% C. 4%D. 2%

Answer 3

how many bronze picked
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how many coins picked

Answer 4

or quite possibly the dividor is the number of coins in the jar .....

Answer 5

if im right, ts either B or D :) how do we narrow that down?

Answer 6

so
coins picked
or
coins in tha jar?

Answer 7

i think it might be b.

Answer 8

i wonder if "replacement or not" matters ... prolly not

Answer 9

i think it is coins picked

Answer 10

i think its coins in jar .... 2 out of 100 is what the experiment gives us

Answer 11

coins picked is just a sample size

Answer 12

it seems like coins picked out

Answer 13

yes that makes more sense 2 out 100