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As part of their quality assurance checks, the Hostess company randomly examines

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Question

As part of their quality assurance checks, the Hostess company randomly examines batches of Twinkies. In a batch of 250 Twinkies, the Hostess quality assurance team found that 25 do not have enough filling. Using this information, a quality assurance inspector estimates that if a Twinkle is randomly selected from a batch, there is a 10% chance that it has insufficient filling. The probability in this scenario was assigned based on Ed and Sarah invite three guests to their house for dinner. There are 24 ways to seat the five of them around the dinner table. In 12 of these seating arrangements, Ed and Sarah are seated beside each other. If the five of them randomly sit around the table, the probability that Ed and Sarah will sit beside each other is 50%. The probability in this scenario was assigned based on _____ John tells his brother that if his friends Joe and Eddie were to fight, Joe would have a 70% probability of winning. The probability in this scenario was assigned based on _____.

Explanation / Answer

1) as it is calcualted based on experiment ; hence it is relative frequency

2)equally likely outcomes

3)intuition