a high school choir has had 6 bass singers and 18 other singers join so far. what is the experimental…

a high school choir has had 6 bass singers and 18 other singers join so far. what is the experimental probability that the next student to join will be a bass singer? simplify your answer and write it as a fraction or whole number. p(bass singer) =

a high school choir has had 6 bass singers and 18 other singers join so far. what is the experimental probability that the next student to join will be a bass singer? simplify your answer and write it as a fraction or whole number. p(bass singer) =

Answer

Explanation:

Step1: Calculate total number of singers

$6 + 18=24$

Step2: Calculate experimental - probability

The probability of an event is the number of favorable outcomes divided by the total number of outcomes. Here, the number of favorable outcomes (bass singers) is 6 and the total number of outcomes (total singers) is 24. So, $P(\text{bass singer})=\frac{6}{24}$

Step3: Simplify the fraction

$\frac{6\div6}{24\div6}=\frac{1}{4}$

Answer:

$\frac{1}{4}$