Question

What is the probability that a randomly selected book is a nonfiction paperback? Write the probability as a percent rounded to the nearest tenth of a percent.

*Use the two-way table to identify the relative frequency of the given data.*

                    fiction | nonfiction | total
paperback |    5     |      23         | 28
hardback   |    11     |      30         | 41
total            |   16     |     53         | 69

Answer 1

The probability would be 33.3%.

There are 23 nonfiction paperback books out of a total of 69 books.  That means the probability would be 

23/69 = 0.333(100) = 33.3%.