SOLUTION: According to all knowing Wikipedia about 10%of all humans are left handed. What would you say is the probability that the next person you run into is left handed? What's the probab
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Question 1067652: According to all knowing Wikipedia about 10%of all humans are left handed. What would you say is the probability that the next person you run into is left handed? What's the probability that he or she is right handed?
Answer by Theo(13342) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
probability is 10% that the next person i run into is left handed.
probability is 90% that the next person i run into is right handed (100% - 10% = 90%).
probability and percent occurrences are related.
if something occurs x% of the time, then the probability it will occur the next time is x%.
when you see something occurring x% of the time, then the probability is called experimental probability.
if you calculate what the percent should be, then the probability is called theoretical probability.
example would be flipping a coin.
theoretical probability says the coin should come up heads 50% of the time.
if you actually flip the coin many times and it comes up heads 60% of the time, then your experimental probability for flipping that particular coin is 60%.
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