A jar contained 6 red marbles, 10 green marbles, and 8 blue marbles. A marble was selected at random, the color was recorded, and the marble was placed back in the jar. The table shows the results after 50 trials.

What was the relative frequency of selecting a red marble? Round to the nearest percent, if necessary.

Outcome Red Green Blue
Number of trials 10 24 16

Question

A jar contained 6 red marbles, 10 green marbles, and 8 blue marbles. A marble was selected at random, the color was recorded, and the marble was placed back in the jar. The table shows the results after 50 trials.
 
What was the relative frequency of selecting a red marble? Round to the nearest percent, if necessary.
 
Outcome	             Red	Green	Blue
Number of trials       10        24           16

kropot72 · Answer

$$\large Relative\ frequency=\frac{frequency\ of\ a\ particular\ outcome}{total\ number\ of\ experiments}$$

anonymous · Answer

@Jhannybean

jhannybean · Answer

From what kropot stated, find the total number of experiments first, i.e, add all `number of trials`

jhannybean · Answer

Then take 10 and divide it by the total number.

anonymous · Answer

The answer is 20, trust me i just took the test like 2 mins ago