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Irma supplies costumes to a number of theater companies. She recently provided 1818 different hats, including 44 fedoras. What is the experimental probability that the next hat requested from Irma's inventory will be a fedora? Simplify your answer and write it as a fraction or whole number.\newlineP(fedora)=____P(\text{fedora}) = \_\_\_\_

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Q. Irma supplies costumes to a number of theater companies. She recently provided 1818 different hats, including 44 fedoras. What is the experimental probability that the next hat requested from Irma's inventory will be a fedora? Simplify your answer and write it as a fraction or whole number.\newlineP(fedora)=____P(\text{fedora}) = \_\_\_\_
  1. Calculate Probability: The experimental probability of an event is calculated by dividing the number of times the event occurs by the total number of trials. In this case, the event is selecting a fedora, and the total number of trials is the total number of hats.
  2. Find Probability of Fedora: To find the probability of selecting a fedora, we divide the number of fedoras by the total number of hats.\newlineP\left(\text{fedora}\right) = \frac{\text{Number of fedoras}}{\text{Total number of hats}}\(\newlineP\left(\text{fedora}\right) = \frac{\(4\)}{\(18\)}
  3. Simplify Fraction: We can simplify the fraction by dividing both the numerator and the denominator by their greatest common divisor, which is \(2. \newlineP(fedora)=4÷218÷2P(\text{fedora}) = \frac{4 \div 2}{18 \div 2}\newlineP(fedora)=29P(\text{fedora}) = \frac{2}{9}

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