Question

In a shooting game, John shoots the ball 20 times out of 40 trials. What is the empirical probability of the shooting event?
A. $\dfrac{3}{2}$
B. $\dfrac{1}{2}$
C. $\dfrac{5}{2}$
D. $\dfrac{7}{2}$

Answer 1

Hint : We first explain the concept of empirical probability and how the events are considered. We take the given events and find the number of outcomes. Using the probability theorem of $P\left( A \right)=\dfrac{n\left( A \right)}{n\left( U \right)}$ , we get the empirical probability of the shooting event.

Complete step by step solution:
Empirical probability uses the number of occurrences of an outcome within a sample set as a basis for determining the probability of that outcome.
We take two events, one with conditions and other one without conditions. The later one is called the universal event which chooses all possible options.
We find the number of outcomes for both events. We take the conditional event A and the universal event as U and numbers will be denoted as
$n\left( A \right)$ and $n\left( U \right)$ .
We take the empirical probability of the given problem as
$P\left( A \right)=\dfrac{n\left( A \right)}{n\left( U \right)}$ .
We are given that John shoots the ball 20 times out of 40 trials.
Therefore, if the condition of shooting is considered as A, then
$n\left( A \right)=20$ and $n\left( U \right)=40$ .
The empirical probability of the shooting event is
$P\left( A \right)=\dfrac{20}{40}=\dfrac{1}{2}$ .
The correct option is B.
So, the correct answer is “Option B”.

Note : We need to understand the concept of universal events. This will be the main event that is implemented before the conditional event.