on the last day of a shakespeare class, an english teacher asked her students which play they liked the…

on the last day of a shakespeare class, an english teacher asked her students which play they liked the best. she made a table of the results. hamlet 11 macbeth 4 twelfth night 1 romeo and juliet 6 what is the probability that a randomly selected shakespeare student likes hamlet best? write your answer as a fraction or whole number. p(hamlet) =
Answer
Explanation:
Step1: Calculate total number of students
$11 + 4+1 + 6=22$
Step2: Calculate probability of liking Hamlet
The number of students who like Hamlet is 11. Probability formula is $P(A)=\frac{\text{Number of favorable outcomes}}{\text{Total number of outcomes}}$. So $P(\text{Hamlet})=\frac{11}{22}$
Answer:
$\frac{11}{22}$