Example 2 Miniature Golf A miniature golf course offers a free game to golfers who make a hole-in-one on the last hole. Last week, 44 out of 256 golfers made a hole-in-one on the last hole. Find the experimental probability that a golfer makes a hole-in-one on the last hole. Finding Experimental Probability SOLUTION P (hole-in-one) = Number of successes Number of trials Simplify. = 64 11
Finding Experimental Probability Example 2 ANSWER The experimental probability that a golfer makes a hole-in-one on the last hole is, or about
2.You interviewed 45 randomly chosen students for the newspaper. Of the students you interviewed, 15 play sports. Find the experimental probability that the next randomly chosen student will play sports. Checkpoint ANSWER 3 1, or about 0.33