Question

Since the beginning of the year, 1982 people have come into a blood bank to donate blood and 340 were found to have high blood pressure. Estimate the probability that the next person who comes in to give blood will have high blood pressure.

Answer 1

Hello!

You have to find the percentage of people that have high blood pressure to the amount of people

340/1982 = 17%

So there is a 17% chance or 17/100 chance that the next person will have high blood pressure

Hope this helps!

Answer 2

≈ 17.15%

Explanation:

This probability (experimental) relies on previous facts.

We know that 340 out of 1982 people had high blood pressure. In percentage:
`(340)/(1982)=0.1715*100=17.15`%

So the probability that the next person who comes in to give blood will have high blood pressure is same as the experimental probability that we found. So it is:

About 17.15% (rounded to 2 decimal places)