SOLUTION: You are ordering a hamburger and can get up to 6 toppings, but each topping can onluy be used once. You tell the cashier to surprise you with the toppings you get. What is the prob
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Question 1162028: You are ordering a hamburger and can get up to 6 toppings, but each topping can onluy be used once. You tell the cashier to surprise you with the toppings you get. What is the probability that you get 1 topping? Express your answer as a fraction or a decimal number rounded to four decimal places. Found 3 solutions by Alan3354, greenestamps, ikleyn:Answer by Alan3354(69443) (Show Source):
You can put this solution on YOUR website! 1 topping out of 6 possible ---> 1/6
Express it any way you like.
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We should not have to interpret math problems, or try to figure out what was meant.
I think the question that is asked is open to different interpretations. I read the problem differently than the other tutor.
In choosing the toppings to put on the hamburger, the person preparing it must answer a YES/NO question as to whether or not to include each of the 6 toppings. That's 2 different choices for each of 6 questions, making 2^6 = 64 possible sets of answers, meaning there is a total of 64 different possible combinations of toppings.
There are 6 combinations that consist of a single topping.
So the probability of getting a burger with exactly 1 topping is 6/64 = 3/32.
