Probability

Zuzana has 5 playlists with different music styles on her mobile phone. The table shows their names and the number of songs they contain. Fill in the missing number so that a rock song plays first with a probability of 21% when the shuffle function is used.

Music style: Number of songs:
hip hop: 52
jazz: 11
disco: 79
rock: ?
classical music: 16

Final Answer:

r =  42

Step-by-step explanation:

p=21%=10021=0.21   p =  52+11+79+r+16r  p (52+11+79+r+16)=r 0.21 (52+11+79+r+16)=r  0.79r=33.18  r=0.7933.18=42  r=42



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