A manager has been given the table shown below and is asked to generate random numbers.Which of the following statements is TRUE?
A)There are no customers in the store 49 percent of the time.
B)The probability of having one customer in the store is 0.30.
C)The relative frequency of having two customers in the store is 0.80.
D)If we randomly choose the numbers 0 through 99 enough times,about 99 percent of the time we will have two customers in the store.

Question

A manager has been given the table shown below and is asked to generate random numbers.Which of the following statements is TRUE? 
A)There are no customers in the store 49 percent of the time. 
B)The probability of having one customer in the store is 0.30. 
C)The relative frequency of having two customers in the store is 0.80. 
D)If we randomly choose the numbers 0 through 99 enough times,about 99 percent of the time we will have two customers in the store.

Quizplus · Accepted Answer

The table shows the probabilities of different numbers of customers being in the store. The sum of all the probabilities must be 1, which is the case in this table. Looking at the table, we can see that the probability of having one customer in the store is 0.30 (the entry in the second row and second column). None of the other statements are true based on the information given in the table.

A Manager Has Been Given the Table Shown Below and Is