Problem

Bella has a bag that contains pineapple chews, lemon chews, and watermelon chews. She performs an experiment. Bella randomly removes a chew from the bag, records the result, and returns the chew to the bag. Bella performs the experiment 58 times. The results are shown below:
A pineapple chew was selected 53 times.

A lemon chew was selected 2 times. A watermelon chew was selected 3 times.
Based on these results, express the probability that the next chew Bella removes from the bag will be lemon chew as a percent to the nearest whole number.

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\( P(\text{lemon}) = 3.45\% \)

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Step 1 :\( P(\text{lemon}) = \frac{\text{Number of lemon chews selected}}{\text{Total chews selected}} \)

Step 2 :\( P(\text{lemon}) = \frac{2}{58} \)

Step 3 :\( P(\text{lemon}) = 3.45\% \)

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