Zahra has a bag that contains apple chews, strawberry chews, and lime chews. She performs an experiment. Zahra randomly removes a chew from the bag, records the result, and returns the chew to the bag. Zahra performs the experiment 41 times. The results are shown below:
An apple chew was selected 34 times.
A strawberry chew was selected 5 times.
A lime chew was selected 2 times.
Based on these results, express the probability that the next chew Zahra removes from the bag will be lime chew as a percent to the nearest whole number.
The probability of selecting a lime chew can be calculated by taking the number of times a lime chew was selected (2) and dividing it by the total number of experiments performed (41):
Probability = 2/41 ≈ 0.0487
To express this as a percentage to the nearest whole number, we multiply by 100:
Probability ≈ 0.0487 * 100 ≈ 4.87%
Therefore, the probability that the next chew Zahra removes from the bag will be a lime chew is approximately 5%.