Human Blood Types Human blood is grouped into four types. The percentages of Americans with each type are listed below.
$044 %$
A $41 %$
B $10 %$
$A B 5 %$
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Choose one American at random. Find the probabilities of the following.
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(a) Has type B blood
The probability that a random American has type B blood is $%$ .

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$The probability that a random American has type B blood is 10%.$

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Step 1 ：Given that the percentage of Americans with type B blood is 10%, we can express this as a probability.

Step 2 ：The probability is simply the percentage expressed as a decimal, so the probability that a random American has type B blood is 0.10 or 10%.

Step 3 ： $The probability that a random American has type B blood is 10%.$