Of 1901 people who came into a blood bank to give blood, 315 people had high blood pressure. Estimate the probability that the next person who comes in to give blood will have high blood pressure

315/1901 = ?

To estimate the probability that the next person who comes to give blood will have high blood pressure, we would use the concept of relative frequency or empirical probability.

To calculate this, we divide the number of people who had high blood pressure by the total number of people who came to give blood in the blood bank:

Probability = Number of people with high blood pressure / Total number of people

In this case, 315 people had high blood pressure out of a total of 1901 people who came to give blood. Plugging these numbers into the formula, we get:

Probability = 315 / 1901

To estimate the probability, we simplify this fraction:

Probability ≈ 0.1654 or 16.54%

Therefore, the estimated probability that the next person who comes in to give blood will have high blood pressure is approximately 16.54%.