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 point 7 5 Which is the correct interpretation of this probability?

A probability of 0.75 means that over many boxes, about 75 percent are expected to contain a prize. It does not guarantee that exactly 3 out of every 4 boxes—or exactly 75 out of 100—will contain one, because the results can vary in a particular group of boxes. So the correct interpretation is that many boxes will have a prize at a rate close to 75 percent.

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