Free Expected value with empirical probabilities Practice Problems • Learn To Be

Alma owns a lawn care business and recently performed some research on the size of

50

lawns that she takes care of.

Alma recalls that she is expected to take care of a total of

21

acres of lawn for every

6

customers that she serves. She also knows that she has

4

customers with

1

acre of lawn,

6

customers with

2

acres of lawn, and

9

customers with

5

acres of lawn.

Unfortunately, Alma can’t find the information on the number of customers that have

3

4

acre lawns.

Find the $2$ missing numbers from the data table below.

Acres of lawn	Customers
$1$	$4$
$2$	$6$
$3$	Your answer should be an integer, like $6$ an exact decimal, like $0.75$ a simplified proper fraction, like $3/5$ a simplified improper fraction, like $7/4$ a mixed number, like $1\ 3/4$
$4$	Your answer should be an integer, like $6$ an exact decimal, like $0.75$ a simplified proper fraction, like $3/5$ a simplified improper fraction, like $7/4$ a mixed number, like $1\ 3/4$
$5$	$9$
Total	$50$

Expected value with empirical probabilities