A cereal company hopes to increase its sales by putting prizes in randomly selected boxes of its lowest-selling children’s cereal. The company claims that the probability of getting a prize is 0.75. Which is the correct interpretation of this probability? This company expects to increase cereal sales by 75%. There is a guarantee of getting 3 prizes when buying 4 boxes of this type of cereal. In many, many boxes of cereal of this type, we can expect about 75% of the boxes to contain a prize. The claim of this company is correct if exactly 75 out of 100 boxes of this type of cereal contain a prize.

A cereal company hopes to increase its sales by putting prizes in randomly selected boxes of its lowest-selling children’s cereal. The company claims that the probability of getting a prize is 0.75. Which is the correct interpretation of this probability? This company expects to increase cereal sales by 75%. There is a guarantee of getting 3 prizes when buying 4 boxes of this type of cereal. In many, many boxes of cereal of this type, we can expect about 75% of the boxes to contain a prize. The claim of this company is correct if exactly 75 out of 100 boxes of this type of cereal contain a prize.

A First Course in Probability (10th Edition)

10th Edition

ISBN:9780134753119

Author:Sheldon Ross

Publisher:Sheldon Ross

Chapter1: Combinatorial Analysis

Section: Chapter Questions

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