Jason owns a small business selling bagels. He knows that in the last week 45 customers paid cash, 8 customers used a debit card, and 6 customers used a credit card.

Based on these results, express the probability that the next customer will pay with a credit card as a decimal to the nearest hundredth.

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$P (credit card) = 0.10$

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Step 1 ： $P (credit card) = \frac{number of credit card uses}{total number of transactions}$

Step 2 ： $P (credit card) = \frac{6}{45 + 8 + 6}$

Step 3 ： $P (credit card) = 0.10$