You Randomly Select 500 Students and Observe That 85 of Them

Multiple Choice

You randomly select 500 students and observe that 85 of them smoke. What is your estimate of the probability that a randomly selected student smokes?

A) 0.27
B) 0.5, because there are two possible outcomes for every student surveyed (smoke or don't smoke)
C) 0.17
D) 1.2