Question

Jesse has 147147 songs on a playlist. He's categorized them in the following manner: 1616 jazz, 77 hip hop, 1313 folk, 2525 rap, 2929 country, 1919 gospel, and 3838 Latin American. If Jesse begins listening to his playlist on shuffle, what is the probability that the first song played is a folk song? Express your answer as a fraction in lowest terms or a decimal rounded to the nearest millionth.

Answer 1

the probability that the first song played is a folk song is given by:

P = Number of favorable events/ Total number of events

Number of favorable events = Number of Folk songs =13

Total number of events = Total number of songs =147

So,

the probability that the first song played is a folk song is given by:

P = Number of favorable events/ Total number of events = 13/147

= 0.088435

So,

Answer is: